Forget Taste
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21340887 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola Carroll (0000-0001-8344-1220, corresponding author), Noël Carroll |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 56 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Aesthetic Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8510 • E-ISSN: 1543-7809 |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.5406/15437809.56.1.01 |
| OpenAlex | W4312768133 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
“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
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |