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Causal history, actual and apparent

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2013

Jerrold Levinson*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742. [email protected]://www.philosophy.umd.edu/

Abstract

Attention is drawn to the distinction between the actual (or factual) and the apparent (or ostensible) causal history of a work of art, and how the authors' recommendation “to assume the design stance” in the name of understanding works of art blurs that distinction, thus inadvertently reinforcing the hoary idea, against which the authors otherwise rightly battle, that what one needs to properly appreciate an artwork can be found in even suitably framed observation of the work alone.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2013 

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References

Walton, K. L. (2008) Style and the products and processes of art [1987]. Reprinted in Marvelous images. Oxford University Press.Google Scholar