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Visual Art and Pragmatic Truth: Georgia O'Keeffe at the Helm
- The Journal of Aesthetic Education
- University of Illinois Press
- Volume 55, Number 4, Winter 2021
- pp. 51-59
- Article
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Abstract
Abstract:
This essay examines an oil painting by Georgia O'Keeffe, Ritz Tower (1928), applying the terms of William James's pragmatic conception of truth and the ideas that play a part in it, for example, pluralism and spiritualism, along with assistance from Martin Heidegger's notion of Wohnung (dwelling). This is not only a fruitful way to look at her painting but paintings in the same or similar genre. Aesthetic judgments made about Ritz Tower are true if they work (in the pragmatic sense) for those who make said judgments if they find them successful in fitting in with other ideas and beliefs in their aesthetic experience of the painting or other artworks.
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