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"As the title of this book was meant to suggest, its subject is the way we talk about (and write about) works of art: or, rather, one of the ways, namely, the way we describe works of art for critical purposes. Be­ cause I wished to restrict my subject matter in this way, I have made a sharp, and no doubt largely artificial distinction between describing and evaluating. And I must, at the outset, guard against a misreading of this distinction to which I have left myself open. In distinguishing between evaluative and descriptive aesthetic judgments, I am not saying that when I assert ""X is p,"" where p is a ""descriptive"" term like ""unified,"" or ""delicate,"" or ""garish,"" I may not at the same time be evaluating X too; and I am not saying that when I make the obviously ""evaluative"" assertion ""X is good,"" I may not be describing X. Clearly, if I say ""X is unified"" I am evaluating X in that unity is a good-making feature of works of art; and as it is correct in English at least to call an evaluation a description, I do not want to suggest that if an assertion is evaluative, it cannot be de­ scriptive (although there have been many philosophers who have thought this indeed to be the case)."

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Author:   P. Kivy
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1973
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.280kg
ISBN:  

9789024714919

ISBN 10:   9024714915
Pages:   144
Publication Date:   31 July 1973
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

I. The Condition-Governed Model.- Unity in Music: A Test Case.- Refutations and Rejoinders.- Monothematic Structure and the Condition-Governed Model.- Recapitulation.- II. Two Concepts of Taste.- Taste and Non-Taste.- An Ability to Notice or See or Tell.- De Gustibus.- Recapitulation.- III. Are Aesthetic Terms Ungovernable.- Aesthetic and Nonaesthetic.- Aesthetic Terms and Aesthetic Discourse.- Aesthetic Terms and Novel Objects.- Aesthetic Terms and Taste.- Recapitulation.- IV. Are Things Always What They Seem?.- Further Reflections on the Behavior of Aesthetic Terms.- The Doctrine of Aesthetic Vision.- Animadversions on the Doctrine .- Recapitulation.- V. Duck-Rabbit and Other Perplexities.- Aspects or Qualities.- Aspect-Perceiving and Aesthetic Perceiving.- The Logic of Aspect-Ascribing.- Recapitulation.- VI. Art and Objectivity.- Two Footnotes to Plato.- Aesthetic Terms and Aesthetic Qualities.- Aesthetic Terms and Aesthetic Disagreements.- Conclusion.

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