Conceptualism and the Aesthetics of Meaning

Authors

  • Matilde Carrasco Barranco Universidad de Murcia Spain

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i1.1083

Keywords:

Artistic Conceptualism; Aesthetic Properties; Internal Beauty; Danto

Abstract

Since the most relevant artistic production rejected modernist aesthetic theory in the 60s, there has been discussion about the question of whether aesthetics had really anything to do with art at all. Various forms of cognitivism in the philosophy of art developed accompanying the conceptualism that, broadly speaking, has been at the core of most neo-avantgarde practices. However, the interrelationship between art and aesthetics has been reviewed on different basis. This paper focuses on recent Danto’s «aesthetics of meaning» in order to dispute the conceptualist thesis which states that aesthetics is irrelevant for the criticism and the value of contemporary art.

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Author Biography

Matilde Carrasco Barranco, Universidad de Murcia

Matilde Carrasco Barranco es profesora Titular del Área de Estética y Teoría de las Artes. Departamento de Filosofía. Universidad de Murcia. Línea de investigación Valor estético y otros valores en el arte, experiencia estética y juicio, problemas estéticos del arte contemporáneo, arte y sociedad. Publicaciones recientes «Art Criticism: Understanding and Evaluating Art», Sociedades en Crisis. Europa y el Concepto de Estética, Madrid, Secretaría General Técnica del Ministerio de Cultura, 2011, pp. 362-367. «Contemporary art. Subversion, Pluralism, and Democracy», Monitor ZSA. Re- vija za Zgodovinsko, Socialno in druge Antropologije, 31/32, vol. XI, nº1-2 (2009), pp. 45-55.

Dirección electrónica: matildec@um.es

Published

2015-12-15

How to Cite

Carrasco Barranco, M. (2015). Conceptualism and the Aesthetics of Meaning. Contrastes. Revista Internacional De Filosofía, 19(1). https://doi.org/10.24310/Contrastescontrastes.v19i1.1083

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ARTICLES