Defining Art, Creating the Canon —— Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt

----- 定义艺术,创造经典:怀疑时代的艺术价值

ISBN: 9780199698585 出版年：2007 页码：275 Crowther, Paul Clarendon Press

What is art; why should we value it; and what allows us to say that one work is better than another? Against the current of contemporary thinking, Paul Crowther uses a philosophical approach to champion the traditional answer to these questions, that there is such a thing as distinctively artistic value based on aesthetic criteria. In doing so he exposes flaws in the arguments of the sceptics for whom there can be no such thing as objectively good art.