The Abstractness of Artworks and its Implications for Aesthetics
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What would it be like to belong to a profession whose members routinely believe many more than six impossible things before breakfast? Well, just look in the looking glass: the chances are that if you're reading this, you are already associated with the profession in question. Such are the implications of the argument to follow. We aestheticians, and our theories, are currently embroiled in allegiances to any number of impossible beliefs about the concreteness of artworks, which leave us in a theoretically untenable situation.
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تاریخ انتشار 2009