Distinct performances of the same song can mean very different things. Yet the meaning of
the song may be fixed. My immediate purpose is to show how the interplay of semantics and …

Analytic aesthetics has had little (or little positive) to say about academic schools of criticism,
such as Freudian, Marxist, feminist, or postcolonial perspectives. Historicists typically view …

Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of
leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is …

Authenticity has been identified as “critics' key criterion in assessing the artistic value of new
[popular] music.” 1 This chapter addresses authenticity as a key aspect of popular music, but …

Monroe C. Beardsley has been interpreted by many theorists as advocating antiexternalism
with respect to an artwork's aesthetic properties, typically its meaning. According to this …

A number of objections to the style matrix that Arthur Danto introduced in “The Artworld”
seem to have quelled most discussion of it. So telling have these arguments been that Danto …

A content theory of art would identify an artwork with the meaningful or representational
content of some concrete artistic vehicle, such as the intentional, expressive, stylistic, and …

Several academics have explored the efficacy of personality measurements for personnel
selection applications over the years. The purpose of this study is to determine the impact of …

Arthur Danto's style matrix brings together many facets of his thinking about philosophy and
about art, particularly his intentionalism, art criticism, and historicism, underscoring the …

Durante la primera parte de esta tesis ofreceré una caracterización del programa dantiano
en la que propondré como alternativa para la definición del arte el contextualismo inherente …