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Normative and scientific approaches to the understanding and evaluation of art

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Jonathan Gilmore
Jonathan Gilmore*
Affiliation:
Philosophy Department, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027. [email protected]
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Abstract

The psycho-historical framework proposes that appreciators' responses to art vary as a function of their sensitivity to its historical dimensions. However, the explanatory power of that framework is limited insofar as it assimilates relevantly different kinds of appreciation and insofar as it eschews a normative account of when a response succeeds in qualifying as an appreciation of art qua art.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 2013 , pp. 144 - 145
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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