The Classification of Visual Art: A Philosophical Myth and its History

by Tiffany Sutton

• ISBN13: 9780521039741
• ISBN10: 0521039746
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-08-27
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

This book is an important contribution to the philosophy of art that bridges the disciplines of philosophy and art. It engages with a long-standing debate about what it is that bestows the designation 'art' on an artwork. Tiffany Sutton shows how the history of art should influence the classification of visual art. She considers the various theories that have been put forward to define the nature of the artwork and then offers her own set of classificatory norms. Amongst the critical questions that are addressed in the process are: how important is patronage in the contemporary visual arts, and what lends conceptual art its specific aura?

Table of Contents

List of illustrations

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The Historical Basis of the Myth

Juxtapositionality in art history

The Framing Myth

The Framing Process

Framing in art-historical perspective

The Myth Framed

Theoretic refinements

Illustrations

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index

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