ALAIN THOTE
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197264355
- eISBN:
- 9780191734052
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197264355.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture presents the text of the speech about artists and craftsmen in the late Bronze Age of China delivered by the author at the 2007 Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture ...
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This lecture presents the text of the speech about artists and craftsmen in the late Bronze Age of China delivered by the author at the 2007 Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture held at the British Academy. It describes dramatic changes in the arts that took place around the turn of the fourth century bc which deeply affected the nature of artistic creation, and provides examples drawn from two major artistic categories of artistic production, lacquer and bronze.Less
This lecture presents the text of the speech about artists and craftsmen in the late Bronze Age of China delivered by the author at the 2007 Elsley Zeitlyn Lecture on Chinese Archaeology and Culture held at the British Academy. It describes dramatic changes in the arts that took place around the turn of the fourth century bc which deeply affected the nature of artistic creation, and provides examples drawn from two major artistic categories of artistic production, lacquer and bronze.
Paisley Livingston
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- April 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780199278060
- eISBN:
- 9780191602269
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199278067.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
In aesthetics, the topic of intentions comes up most often in the perennial debate between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists over standards of interpretation. The underlying assumptions about ...
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In aesthetics, the topic of intentions comes up most often in the perennial debate between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists over standards of interpretation. The underlying assumptions about the nature and functions of intentions are, however, rarely explicitly developed, even though divergent and at times tendentious premises are often relied upon in this controversy. Livingston provides a survey of contentions about the nature and status of intentions and intentionalist psychology more generally, arguing for an account that recognizes the multiple functions fulfilled by intentions in the lives of temporally situated agents who deliberate over what to do, settle on ends and means, and try to realize some of their plans. Artists’ intentions are the same sorts of attitudes that we attribute to ourselves and to others as we attempt to describe, explain, and predict our actions. As such, intentions are relevant not only to debates over the interpretation of works of art but also to a range of other basic topics in the philosophy of art, including artistic creation and authorship, the ontology of art, the nature of texts, works, versions, and life-works, and the status and nature of fiction and fictional truth. With regard to the controversy over the interpretation of art, Livingston advocates a ‘partial’ intentionalism. Intentions are never infallible, so there is a conceptual gap between the completed work and the intentions that initiated and guided its making. Yet in spite of the fallibility of intentions and of our beliefs and claims about them, intentions regularly contribute to the determination of a work’s features, including implicit meanings, the recognition of which requires the uptake of the artist’s intentional design. Partial intentionalism also finds support in the idea that at least one sort of artistic value depends on the artist’s skilful accomplishment of intentions.Less
In aesthetics, the topic of intentions comes up most often in the perennial debate between intentionalists and anti-intentionalists over standards of interpretation. The underlying assumptions about the nature and functions of intentions are, however, rarely explicitly developed, even though divergent and at times tendentious premises are often relied upon in this controversy. Livingston provides a survey of contentions about the nature and status of intentions and intentionalist psychology more generally, arguing for an account that recognizes the multiple functions fulfilled by intentions in the lives of temporally situated agents who deliberate over what to do, settle on ends and means, and try to realize some of their plans. Artists’ intentions are the same sorts of attitudes that we attribute to ourselves and to others as we attempt to describe, explain, and predict our actions. As such, intentions are relevant not only to debates over the interpretation of works of art but also to a range of other basic topics in the philosophy of art, including artistic creation and authorship, the ontology of art, the nature of texts, works, versions, and life-works, and the status and nature of fiction and fictional truth. With regard to the controversy over the interpretation of art, Livingston advocates a ‘partial’ intentionalism. Intentions are never infallible, so there is a conceptual gap between the completed work and the intentions that initiated and guided its making. Yet in spite of the fallibility of intentions and of our beliefs and claims about them, intentions regularly contribute to the determination of a work’s features, including implicit meanings, the recognition of which requires the uptake of the artist’s intentional design. Partial intentionalism also finds support in the idea that at least one sort of artistic value depends on the artist’s skilful accomplishment of intentions.
Joseph B. Solodow
- Published in print:
- 1988
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807854341
- eISBN:
- 9781469616506
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9781469616490_Solodow
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Archaeology: Classical
Synthesizing many detailed observations, this book studies the structure of Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid's treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid's and ...
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Synthesizing many detailed observations, this book studies the structure of Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid's treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid's and Virgil's presentations of Aeneas. It argues that for Ovid, metamorphosis is an act of clarification, a form of artistic creation, and that the metamorphosed creatures in his poem are comparable to works of art. These figures ultimately aid us in perceiving and understanding the world.Less
Synthesizing many detailed observations, this book studies the structure of Ovid's poem Metamorphoses, the role of the narrator, Ovid's treatment of myth, and the relationship between Ovid's and Virgil's presentations of Aeneas. It argues that for Ovid, metamorphosis is an act of clarification, a form of artistic creation, and that the metamorphosed creatures in his poem are comparable to works of art. These figures ultimately aid us in perceiving and understanding the world.
Miguel de Beistegui
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748638307
- eISBN:
- 9780748671816
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748638307.003.0004
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
This chapter argues that there is a dimension of ontology that exceeds the limits of the ontogenetic problematic. Difference and Repetition sets the transcendental field as the realm of Ideas. ...
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This chapter argues that there is a dimension of ontology that exceeds the limits of the ontogenetic problematic. Difference and Repetition sets the transcendental field as the realm of Ideas. Immanence is transcendence itself that is transcendent to the immanence within which it unfolds. Gilles Deleuze's use of the concept of expression in A Thousand Plateaus is entirely consistent with that of Expressionism, and aims to define the same process. It then describes the stratification, and highlights the fact that Deleuze associates it with a process of transcendence. In addition to the plane of organisation and development, and as the plane from which it grows, Deleuze is concerned to draw an altogether different plane, namely, the plane of consistency, or immanence. It is noted that philosophy is more akin to artistic creation.Less
This chapter argues that there is a dimension of ontology that exceeds the limits of the ontogenetic problematic. Difference and Repetition sets the transcendental field as the realm of Ideas. Immanence is transcendence itself that is transcendent to the immanence within which it unfolds. Gilles Deleuze's use of the concept of expression in A Thousand Plateaus is entirely consistent with that of Expressionism, and aims to define the same process. It then describes the stratification, and highlights the fact that Deleuze associates it with a process of transcendence. In addition to the plane of organisation and development, and as the plane from which it grows, Deleuze is concerned to draw an altogether different plane, namely, the plane of consistency, or immanence. It is noted that philosophy is more akin to artistic creation.
Mira T. Sundara Rajan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195390315
- eISBN:
- 9780190259747
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195390315.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter examines moral rights in two contrasting manifestations of information technology. First, it discusses the place of moral rights in works of new technology that are now accepted ...
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This chapter examines moral rights in two contrasting manifestations of information technology. First, it discusses the place of moral rights in works of new technology that are now accepted subject-matter for copyright protection. It looks at the paradigmatic case of computer software and databases. Second, it explores the collision of new technology with the world of the arts and considers three aspects of the problem. It considers the moral rights implications of new kinds of artistic works; creative works that are created by new technological methods; and artistic creation that represents a combination of the two. In many ways, information technology represents a test case for moral rights in the digital context. Computer software has been integrated whole heartedly into copyright law. At the same time, software and related technologies challenge copyright at a fundamental level.Less
This chapter examines moral rights in two contrasting manifestations of information technology. First, it discusses the place of moral rights in works of new technology that are now accepted subject-matter for copyright protection. It looks at the paradigmatic case of computer software and databases. Second, it explores the collision of new technology with the world of the arts and considers three aspects of the problem. It considers the moral rights implications of new kinds of artistic works; creative works that are created by new technological methods; and artistic creation that represents a combination of the two. In many ways, information technology represents a test case for moral rights in the digital context. Computer software has been integrated whole heartedly into copyright law. At the same time, software and related technologies challenge copyright at a fundamental level.
Mira T. Sundara Rajan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- April 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195390315
- eISBN:
- 9780190259747
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780195390315.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Intellectual Property, IT, and Media Law
This chapter examines the theory and purpose of moral rights and explores moral rights in the digital context. The doctrine of moral rights aims to protect the author from suffering the consequences ...
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This chapter examines the theory and purpose of moral rights and explores moral rights in the digital context. The doctrine of moral rights aims to protect the author from suffering the consequences of moral, intellectual, or spiritual harm inflicted on him through the mistreatment of his work. In the Digital Age, the doctrine of moral rights faces three kinds of challenges. First, copyright law has become the primary form of legal regulation governing new technologies. Second, new technologies and artistic creation can overlap and present conflicting issues. For example, a computer program, itself protected by copyright law as a literary work, is additionally designed to generate a work of art. Third, new technologies have also made it possible for members of the public to intervene in creative works in a new way, making seamless and imperceptible changes.Less
This chapter examines the theory and purpose of moral rights and explores moral rights in the digital context. The doctrine of moral rights aims to protect the author from suffering the consequences of moral, intellectual, or spiritual harm inflicted on him through the mistreatment of his work. In the Digital Age, the doctrine of moral rights faces three kinds of challenges. First, copyright law has become the primary form of legal regulation governing new technologies. Second, new technologies and artistic creation can overlap and present conflicting issues. For example, a computer program, itself protected by copyright law as a literary work, is additionally designed to generate a work of art. Third, new technologies have also made it possible for members of the public to intervene in creative works in a new way, making seamless and imperceptible changes.
Scott Gac
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300111989
- eISBN:
- 9780300138368
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300111989.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, American History: 19th Century
This book outlines the interwoven story of music, careerism, reform, the transformation of American culture, and one of the greatest musical acts in American history. Following the Hutchinson Family ...
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This book outlines the interwoven story of music, careerism, reform, the transformation of American culture, and one of the greatest musical acts in American history. Following the Hutchinson Family Singers through the nineteenth century as they explored and shaped new openings in American society, it unveils the centrality of political allegiance to artistic creation in the antebellum era. The book further tells how the Hutchinsons fought against many of the barriers that later generations of cultural reformers would face. It did not hurt that for a long time the Hutchinsons were also held in high regard in popular consciousness; twenty-four years after John Hutchinson died, his name topped a 1932 Washington Post list. As grandchildren of the Revolutionary War generation, the Hutchinson Family Singers were integral players in bringing American reform from the enlightenment offering of Tom Paine's “Common Sense” to the brand of Romantic activism found in their music and in the writings of such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe. From New Hampshire to New York, from temperance to antislavery, from revivals to political parades to parlors, and from an aspiring musical trio to a wealthy quartet, the Hutchinson Family Singers shepherded in one of the great nineteenth-century phenomena.Less
This book outlines the interwoven story of music, careerism, reform, the transformation of American culture, and one of the greatest musical acts in American history. Following the Hutchinson Family Singers through the nineteenth century as they explored and shaped new openings in American society, it unveils the centrality of political allegiance to artistic creation in the antebellum era. The book further tells how the Hutchinsons fought against many of the barriers that later generations of cultural reformers would face. It did not hurt that for a long time the Hutchinsons were also held in high regard in popular consciousness; twenty-four years after John Hutchinson died, his name topped a 1932 Washington Post list. As grandchildren of the Revolutionary War generation, the Hutchinson Family Singers were integral players in bringing American reform from the enlightenment offering of Tom Paine's “Common Sense” to the brand of Romantic activism found in their music and in the writings of such authors as Harriet Beecher Stowe. From New Hampshire to New York, from temperance to antislavery, from revivals to political parades to parlors, and from an aspiring musical trio to a wealthy quartet, the Hutchinson Family Singers shepherded in one of the great nineteenth-century phenomena.
Vinciane Despret
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780816692378
- eISBN:
- 9781452954394
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816692378.003.0015
- Subject:
- Philosophy, General
This chapter explores the role of intention in debates on animals creating art, the autonomy and mastery of the art-producing animal, and assumptions of exceptionality and intention rather than ...
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This chapter explores the role of intention in debates on animals creating art, the autonomy and mastery of the art-producing animal, and assumptions of exceptionality and intention rather than instinct in artistic creation.Less
This chapter explores the role of intention in debates on animals creating art, the autonomy and mastery of the art-producing animal, and assumptions of exceptionality and intention rather than instinct in artistic creation.
