(Originally written March 6, 2007 in Book 16)
Class Notes
Frank Sibley
Aesthetic features of a piece of art are not reducible to non-aesthetic features.
Thesis - Aesthetic concepts do not logically depend on non-aesthetic features.
Aesthetic features can only be perceived by those who have aesthetic sensibilities. The non-aesthetic features of any thing are perceivable by all perceiving beings.
Taste or sensitivity to aesthetic features is a rarer quality of humanity.
Arguments:
1. The impossibility of universal rules
2. The rule-applying is non-Aesthetic
Kendall Walton
Aesthetic properties do depend on non-aesthetic facts, especially historical considerations.
3 properties an art work may have:
1) Standard property
2) Non-standard property (variable property)
3) contra-standard property
Standard property - any feature that is essential to that piece's specific genre
Variable property - non-essential features to that piece's genre.
Contra-standard property - a feature that tends to disqualify a piece from a genre
Additive property - one that is the result of simply adding different parts together/
Emergent property - Something that emerges at a microlevel in which does not exist at a microlevel
Non-aesthetic considerations
1. Number of standard features
2. Maximum aesthetic appeal
3. Artist's intentions
4. Well-established category
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