How to judge a work of art today? Contemporary echoes of Kantian aesthetics
(2017) Artefilosofia — Vol. Juillet 2017, n° 22, p. 172-191 (2017)
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- How to judge a work of art? This question, already present in the Critique of the Power of Judgment by Immanuel Kant, was updated in France in the early 1990s (that is about two centuries later) when several art critics and philosophers took part in a public debate concerning the state of creation and the situation of the artworld. The Esprit and Télérama journals dedicated several issues to what was called the Òcrisis of contemporary art, namely the supposed loss of normative criteria allowing one to judge and evaluate artworks. Following their publication, several French philosophers among which Marc Jimenez, Jean-Pierre Cometti, Jean-Marie Schaeffer, GŽrard Genette, Yves Michaud and Rainer Rochlitz took position on this presumed crisis of contemporary art and, consequently, of art criticism and philosophical aesthetics. More than on the controversy itself, this paper will focus on the philosophical issues raised or reactivated by it: the question of the definition of art, that of the aesthetic experience and the possibility of its sharing, that of the legitimacy (or not) of art criticism today and Ð especially Ð the question of judgment: how to judge a work of art today? Are our judgements subjective or can they claim a certain universality?
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Angelini, C. (2017). How to judge a work of art today? Contemporary echoes of Kantian aesthetics. Artefilosofia, Juillet 2017(22), 172-191. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/48483 (Original work published 2017)