The Aesthetics of Thorstein Veblen Revisited

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ID4785763
AuthorsRick Tilman (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Southern Connecticut State University, corresponding author), Robert Griffin (0000-0001-5665-700X, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Southern Connecticut State University)
Year1998
Volume10
Issue3
Pages325-340
Publication date1998-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Dynamics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0921-3740 • E-ISSN: 1461-7048
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/092137409801000306
OpenAlexW2086623590
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited17

The aesthetics of Thorstein Veblen (1857-1929) have been evaluated by aestheticians and social scientists of various ideological persuasions. Because of Veblen's stature as an American critical theorist and the debate which has ensued over the nature of his aesthetics, further efforts to both clarify and extrapolate from them are self-justificatory. The focus here is on (1) Veblen's view of aesthetic experience, (2) the nature of the non-invidiously beautiful in his aesthetics, (3) his distinction between pure and applied art forms and its importance to the common person and (4) the social basis and artistic consequences of the non-invidious as exemplified in the painting of the American artist Winslow Homer (1836-1910). Problematic areas in Veblen's social theory and aesthetics are addressed and a non-invidious aesthetic of countervailence articulated using Homer's work

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Economics · Epistemology · Ideology · Neoclassical economics · Painting · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Veblen good · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Visual Culture and Art Theory

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