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(2017) Wittgenstein on aesthetic understanding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

If an artwork could speak

aesthetic understanding after Wittgenstein

Constantine Sandis

pp. 355-382

This chapter allies Bob Dylan with Wittgenstein to argue that Lockean approaches to understanding systematically neglect crucial aspects of our experience of art. Pace Rush Rhees, I maintain that understanding art is not a matter of knowing ideas. If this were so all art would  be unhappily rendered into conceptual art.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-40910-8_12

Full citation:

Sandis, C. (2017)., If an artwork could speak: aesthetic understanding after Wittgenstein, in G. L. Hagberg (ed.), Wittgenstein on aesthetic understanding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 355-382.

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