Art, Medium and the Challenges of the Conceptual
Wednesday, 11 October 2023, 16:00-18:00
Senate House, Room 243
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Medium is a neglected topic in the philosophy of art. My aim is to show that an adequate construal of artistic medium provides unified solutions to general philosophical problems concerning the definition, appreciation and ontology of art. I start by considering a range of more specific problems concerning conceptual art that are partly responsible for generating the general problems. After rejecting previous attempts to solve these problems, I show how an adequate construal of medium yields solutions to the specific problems about conceptual art. I then show how the same solutions can be used to address the general problems about definition, appreciation and ontology.
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