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Art as Performance

ISBN: 978-1-4051-1667-1
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292 pages
December 2003, Wiley-Blackwell
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Preface.

1. Introduction:.

Challenges to Aesthetic Empiricism.

Methodological Interlude: The ‘Pragmatic Constraint’ on the Ontology of Art.

Aesthetic Empiricism and the Philosophy of Art.

2. Aesthetic Empiricism:.

Indirect Arguments Against Aesthetic Empiricism.

3. The Fine Structure of the Focus of Appreciation:.

The Structure of the Focus of Appreciation.

4. The Artwork as Performance: An Argument from Artistic Intentions:.

Overview.

The Bearing of Provenance on Work and Focus.

Artistic Intentions and the Ontology of Art.

Interpretation and Intention.

A Role for Actual Intentions.

Ontological Implications.

Conclusions.

5. Provenance, Modality, and the Identity of the Artwork:.

Preliminaries.

6. Artwork, Action, and Performance.

7. Art as Performance:.

Elaborating the Performance Theory.

Structure and Focus.

Heuristics and the Individuation of Artworks.

Work-Constitution and Modality on the Performance Theory.

Performances, Actions, and Doings.

8. Revisionism and Modernism Revisited.

9. Performance as Art.

10. Defining ‘Art’ as Performance, and the Values of Art:.

Notes Towards a Definition of ‘Art’.

The Values of Art.

Conclusions: The Case Against Contextualism.

References.

Index

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