Abstract (may include machine translation)
Art is one thing, the aesthetic another. Things can be appreciated aesthetically – for instance, in terms of the traditional category of the beautiful – without being works of art. A landscape can be appreciated as beautiful; so can a man or a woman. Appreciation of such natural objects in terms of their beauty certainly counts as aesthetic appreciation, if anything does. This is not simply because landscapes and people are not artefacts; for there are also artefacts which are assessable aesthetically without being works of art (e.g. an elegant car or a mathematical proof)...
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Questions of Taste |
Subtitle of host publication | The Philosophy of Wine |
Editors | Barry C. Smith |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 141-156 |
Number of pages | 16 |
State | Published - 2007 |
Externally published | Yes |