On Beauty of Artworks as Aesthetic True Representations of Reality

A Collection of Pragmaticist Inquires into the Epistemology of Artistic Creation and Evaluation of Artworks

Dan Nesher (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

370 Seiten

2022
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-7295-5 (ISBN)

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This book is a collection of pragmatist inquiries into the epistemology of artistic creation and evaluation of artworks. It offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and artworks are beautiful when proven aesthetic true representations of reality.

This book is aimed to explain the creation of artworks and their evaluation, and offers a new concept of aesthetics and beauty of artworks. Following and reconstructing Peircean realist epistemology, Aesthetics is one of the three normative sciences, along with Logic (Theoretic) and Ethics, which are the three different modes of representing reality. Aesthetics is the mode of artistic representation of reality, and the created artworks are judged beautiful when proven as an aesthetic true representation of reality. Artists aim to represent reality truly, and hence, beautifully, in order to enhance our knowledge of it and to afford us insights on how to better conduct our life in society.

Dan Nesher is an emeritus member of the Department of Philosophy, University of Haifa.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Beauty of Artwork Is in Its Aesthetic True Representation of Reality:

Epistemology of Creation and Evaluation of Artwork

Chapter 2: It is an Illusion that Artworks Are Fictitious Illusions as they are Actually

Aesthetic Modes of Representing Reality

Chapter 3: Epistemology of Aesthetic Experience: Criticizing and Reconstructing Kant’s

Aesthetic Theories of Genius Creativity and Judgment of Beauty

Chapter 4: Free Creation of Artwork is the Determinate Self-Control of Proving its True

Interpretation and Representation of Reality

Chapter 5: How to Square (Normo, CP:2.7) Peirceanly the Kantian Circularity in the

Epistemology of Aesthetics as a Normative Science of Creating and Evaluating the Beauty of

Artworks

Chapter 6: The Role of Productive Imagination in Creating Artworks and Discovering

Scientific Hypotheses

Chapter 7: On Post-Modern Artworks: A New Aesthetic Genre or Rather a Pseudo Concept of

Art, and then “What, After All, Is a Work of Art?”

Chapter 8: Epilog: Can we Theorize some Bizarre Aesthetic Domains – The Beauty of Music

Aesthetics, Mathematics-Theoretic, and Human-Ethic?

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2022
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 218 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
ISBN-10	0-7618-7295-7 / 0761872957
ISBN-13	978-0-7618-7295-5 / 9780761872955
Zustand	Neuware