Art as PerformanceISBN: 978-1-4051-1666-4
Hardcover
296 pages
December 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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"David Davies’s Art as Performance is itself quite a
performance. While agreeing with aesthetic contextualism’s
rejection of empiricism in aesthetics, it presents a sophisticated
and ingenious critique of, and alternative to, even the most
enlightened contextualism about the nature, ontology, and value of
art, holding that artworks are, all of them, performances by
artists, rather than objects made by artists. Davies’s
arguments will require, and will richly reward, the most careful
attention from his fellow aestheticians." Jerrold Levinson,
University of Maryland
"David Davies brings philosophical rigor and fine-grained
analytical reasoning to live and pressing debates about the
fundamental nature of art. He offers a striking and original thesis
as well as an illuminating presentation of the issues. A compelling
performance!"
Peter Lamarque, University of York<!--end-->