Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism

✍ Scribed by Ted Nannicelli

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 176
• Edition: online
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism advances a new, production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. Its overarching arguments are these: (1) Judgments of an artwork’s ethical value are often made in terms of how it was created, and, furthermore, this is in part because some art forms more readily lend themselves to this form of ethical appraisal. (2) Among the ways in which art is ethically criticized, this production-oriented approach more often leads to practical consequences (censure, dismissal, prosecution, shifts in policy, legislation) because its claim to objectivity is less contested than that of other sorts of ethical criticism. (3) Together, (1) and (2) constitute an approach to the ethical criticism of art that is not only tacit in many art appreciative practices, but which is rationally warranted and defensible. In short, there are many cases in which one should ethically critique artworks in terms of how they are created because this approach encompasses cases that other approaches cannot and results in plausible judgments about the works’ ethical merits and flaws.

✦ Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Figures

Introduction: Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism

Part I: Conceptual Foundations
Chapter 1: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Ethical Criticism of Art: A Critical Survey of the Current State of Affairs
Chapter 2: The Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art: Exegesis and Defense

Part II: Applications
Chapter 3: Photography
Chapter 4: Animals in Contemporary Art
Chapter 5: Environmental Art and the Interaction of Ethical and Aesthetic Value
Chapter 6: Performing Arts: Performance Art, Music, and Theater
Chapter 7: Stand-up Comedy: From Context to Character

Part III: Implications
Chapter 8: On Separating the Art and the Artist: Artistic Creation, Moral Character, and Ethical Criticism

Conclusion: Towards an Applied Ethics of Artistic Creation

Bibliography
Index