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The uses of reason in the evaluation of artworks : commentaries on the Turner Prize

Gillon, Les, author

Overview

This book uses an examination of the annual Turner Prize to defend the view that the evaluation of artworks is a reason-based activity, notwithstanding the lack of any agreed criteria for judging excellence in art. It undertakes an empirical investigation of actual critical practice as evident within published commentaries on the Prize in order to examine and test theories of critical evaluation, including the ideas of Noel Carroll, Frank Sibley, Kendall Walton and Suzanne Langer. Cast studies of work by Turner Prize winners such as Steve McQueen, Martin Creed and Tomma Abts are used to explore definitions of art and concepts of artistic value and meaning.

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Subject: Turner Prize. / Art Awards Great Britain. / Art criticism Great Britain.
• ISBN: 9783319563657, 3319563653

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N396.G7 G55 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE