Painting as "EXPLORING" and Related Metaphors in 20th-Century Art Commentary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19429147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert C Schweik (corresponding author), Robert Schweik |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 285-296 |
| Publication date | 1996-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Metaphor and Symbolic Activity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0885-7253 • E-ISSN: 2379-0288 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1207/s15327868ms1104_4 |
| OpenAlex | W2074104059 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
From the beginning of the 20th century onward, art commentators have increasingly employed 2 related conceptual metaphors: "PAINTING IS EXPLORING" and "THE PAINTER IS A MORAL HERO." These, over the course of the century, underwent some remarkable changes. Critics have progressively altered the kinds of "fields" and "goals" associated with those metaphors so as to attribute greater significance both to the painter's "exploring" and "moral heroism." but without any claim of final success in the "exploring" or linkage of "moral heroism." with conventional public moral norms. Such shifts suggest that, in a time of heightened skepticism about fixed and verifiable, artistic and moral values, many art commentators have felt an increasing need to find metaphors that enable them to conceptualize modem painters as engaged in activities of significant human importance. This is the equivalent of what an 18th- or 19th-century critic might do by praising a painter for making an artistic discovery or supporting the public good and public virtue—but without having to claim for the artist any particular success or adherence to any conventional moral code. In short, the cultural climate in the 20th century helps to explain both the persistence of those metaphors and the peculiar kinds of changes they have undergone
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · HERO · Literature · Metaphor · Painting · Skepticism · Sociology · Virtue · Visual arts · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citations per year | 0.13 |
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| Citation span | 2018 - 2018 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |