Beyond Art by Dominic McIver Lopes;

Author:Dominic McIver Lopes;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: OUP Premium
Published: 2014-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

The use of symbols with some of these symptoms is widespread in human affairs. Davies supplies some lovely examples: ‘the baking of a birthday cake for a child, the writing of a student term-paper, the giving of a Christmas present, and the application of devil make-up by one about to attend a Halloween party’ (2004, 236).

Catharine Abell retrofits Gaut’s cluster theory of art into a theory of the arts. An art is an institution whose etiological functions include

a significant subset of the following: promoting positive aesthetic properties; promoting the expression of emotion; facilitating the posing of intellectual challenges; promoting formal complexity and coherence; facilitating the communication of complex meanings; promoting the exhibition of individual points of view; promoting originality; and promoting the exercise of a high degree of skill (Abell 2012, 13–14).

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