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Speaking of Art

Speaking of Art

Kivy, P.

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Gardening

ISBN10: 9024714915
ISBN13: 9789024714919
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Jul 31 1973
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
As the title of this book was meant to suggest, its subject is the way we talk about (and write about) works of art: or, rather, one of the ways, namely, the way we describe works of art for critical purposes. Be- cause I wished to restrict my subject matter in this way, I have made a sharp, and no doubt largely artificial distinction between describing and evaluating. And I must, at the outset, guard against a misreading of this distinction to which I have left myself open. In distinguishing between evaluative and descriptive aesthetic judgments, I am not saying that when I assert X is p, where p is a descriptive term like unified, or delicate, or garish, I may not at the same time be evaluating X too; and I am not saying that when I make the obviously evaluative assertion X is good, I may not be describing X. Clearly, if I say X is unified I am evaluating X in that unity is a good-making feature of works of art; and as it is correct in English at least to call an evaluation a description, I do not want to suggest that if an assertion is evaluative, it cannot be de- scriptive (although there have been many philosophers who have thought this indeed to be the case).

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