Forget Taste

Dados Bibliográficos

ID21340887
AutoresNicola Carroll (0000-0001-8344-1220, autor correspondente), Noël Carroll
Ano2022
Volume56
Fascículo1
Páginas1-27
Data de publicação2022-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Aesthetic Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8510 • E-ISSN: 1543-7809
EditoraUniversity of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.5406/15437809.56.1.01
OpenAlexW4312768133
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas4

“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