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Art Clusters: The Importance of Similarities in Aesthetic Research and Education

Published:2021-12-01 Issue:4 Volume:55 Page:40-50
ISSN:0021-8510
Container-title:Journal of Aesthetic Education
language:en
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Author:

Meskin Aaron

Abstract

Abstract In his presidential address, at the fiftieth anniversary of the American Society of Aesthetics in 1992, Peter Kivy suggested that “progress in the philosophy of art in the immediate future is to be made not by theorizing in the grand manner, but by careful and imaginative philosophical scrutiny of the individual arts and their individual problems.” The study of the individual arts, and the differences between them, has, in the ensuing decades, provided a useful corrective to aesthetic theorizing in the grand manner. In this essay, I urge philosophers of art, art educators, and art theorists to consider a different option—the rigorous and creative investigation of art clusters: that is, various collections of artworks and art kinds, unified by significant similarities and cutting across the recognized artforms and genres.

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Subject

General Arts and Humanities,Education,Organic Chemistry,Biochemistry

Link

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jae/article-pdf/55/4/40/1460135/jaesteduc.55.4.0040.pdf

Reference32 articles.

1. 1. Peter Kivy, “Differences,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 51, no. 2 (1993): 131.

2. 2. Peter Kivy, Philosophies of Arts: An Essay in Differences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), 53.

3. 3. Note that I use “arts” and “artforms” interchangeably throughout the article.

4. 4. For evidence that “unique” has been used with modifiers (“in the comparative and superlative”) since the eighteenth century, see “unique, adj. and n.” OED Online, July 2018, www.oed.com/view/Entry/214712 (accessed Sept. 25, 2018).

5. 5. If comics are literature, there are still the other three cases.