Beautiful Errors
Aesthetics and the Art of Contextualization
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5817725 |
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| Authors | Alan Singer, Alan E Singer (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-7 |
| Publication date | 1998-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | boundary 2 (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-3659 • E-ISSN: 1527-2141 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/303934 |
| OpenAlex | W2320921385 |
| Language | EN |
Particularly in the idealist guise of the beautiful, perfectionism remains a hallmark of aesthetic value and aesthetic judgment. But as long as aesthetic perfection remains a prime rationale of art production and appreciation, interpretive languages will inevitably founder on this contradiction: The claimants of artistic knowledge must bracket the very criteria of rationality that otherwise offer to make art and knowledge commensurable. The standards of artistic perfection canonized in the eighteenth century
| Highly cited | No |
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