Forget Taste

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21340887
AutoresNicola Carroll (0000-0001-8344-1220, autor de correspondencia), Noël Carroll
Año2022
Volumen56
Número1
Páginas1-27
Fecha de publicación2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Aesthetic Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0021-8510 • E-ISSN: 1543-7809
EditorialUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15437809.56.1.01
OpenAlexW4312768133
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

“Forget Taste” rejects the classical notion of taste as a viable concept for the exercise of critical evaluation and proposes an alternative approach to critical evaluation based crucially on the idea of the constitutive purpose of the artwork. The goal of this paper is to advance an approach—which I call the purpose-driven approach—to the critical evaluation of artworks that develops from and refines the views of art evaluation presented in my previous work. This approach, in virtue of its focus on the constitutive purposes of artworks, regards the artwork as typically singular. For that reason, it follows that this approach is pluralistic in contrast to the hedonic conception of the taste model popularized in the eighteenth century and which still recurs today, if sometimes only subconsciously, and that reduces critical evaluation to feelings of pleasure. I argue that the hedonic taste model, which is noncognitive and reductive, should be abandoned in favor of one that is cognitivist and pluralistic, namely, the purpose-driven approach

Aesthetics · Epistemology · Feeling · Pleasure · Sociology · Subconscious · Taste · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Art History and Market Analysis · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology