Art History and Other Stories

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.162471

Keywords:

Art Criticism, Art History, Philosophy of Art

Abstract

Through the analysis of one erroneous piece of art criticism, an essay by Goethe that re-imagines a lost ancient sculpture, I demonstrate the difficulty that the discipline of art history has with conceptualizing the experience of art making and how one ought to respond to it. I re-examine the relationship between art making and art appreciation informed by ideas such as the Aristotelian view of Poiesis, Iris Murdoch’s praise of art in an unreligious age, and Giorgio Agamben’s call for the unity between poetry and philosophy. I also argue that much of modern art criticism has forgotten Arts’ earlier conceptual vocation, and propose methods of appreciating art that are in themselves artistic.

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Author Biography

  • Luiza Esper Berthoud, University of California, USA

    Luiza Esper Berthoud nasceu em Taubaté, em 1988. É escritora e mestre em História da Arte pela University of California, Davis. Foi pesquisadora bolsista no Yerba Buena Center for Arts (YBCA), museu e centro de pesquisa de arte contemporânea em São Francisco, Califórnia, instituição pela qual também publicou um conto sobre a condição do estrangeiro nos EUA. Atuou como assistente de curadoria no Richmond Art Center, na Califórnia. Sua pesquisa em filosofia da arte é focada na impossibilidade da história da arte.

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Published

2020-04-30

Issue

Vol. 18 No. 38 (2020)

Section

Articles

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Art History and Other Stories. (2020). ARS, 18(38), 197-217. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2178-0447.ars.2020.162471