Artworld Metaphysics turns a critical eye upon aspects of the artworld; and articulates some of the problems; principles; and norms implicit in the actual practices of artistic creation; interpretation; evaluation; and commodification. Aesthetic theory is treated as descriptive and explanatory; rather than normative: a theory that relates to artworld realities as a semantic theory relates to the fragments of natural language it seeks to describe. RobertKraut examines emotional expression; correct interpretation and objectivity in the context of artworld practice; the relevance of jazz to aesthetic theory; and the goals of ontology (artworld and otherwise). He also considers the relation between art and language; the confusions of postmodern relativism; andthe relation between artistic/critical practice and aesthetic theory.
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