If an artwork could speak

aesthetic understanding after Wittgenstein

Constantine Sandis

pp. 355-382

in: Garry L. Hagberg (ed), Wittgenstein on aesthetic understanding, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

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.

Cited authors

Wittgenstein Ludwig

Rhees Rush