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- Title
Conceptual Art and Aesthetic Ideas.
- Authors
Costello, Diarmuid
- Abstract
This paper considers whether Kant's aesthetics withstands the challenge of conceptual art. I begin by looking at two competing views of conceptual art by recent philosophers, before settling on an 'inclusive' view of the form: conceptual art includes both 'strong' and 'weak' non-perceptual art (NPA). I then set out two kinds of conceptual complexity that I argue are implicated by all aesthetic judgements of art (as art) on Kant's view: the concept of art itself, and the idea the work is meant to express (dependent beauty and aesthetic ideas, respectively). I go on to demonstrate the applicability of Kant's aesthetics to conceptual art by considering two works by Lawrence Weiner, which I take to be a work of work of weak and strong NPA respectively.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2021, Vol 26, Issue 4, p603
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1369415421000388