The Abstractness of Artworks and Its Implications for Aesthetics
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (4):341-353 (2008)
Abstract
Artworks have at least some necessary content properties, as do abstract entities such as propositions. But no concrete item, whether an object, event, process etc., could have any necessary content property. So no artwork could be identical with a concrete item. Hence artworks must be abstract. I also argue that artworks are only contingently connected with concrete items, just as propositions are only contingently linked to their linguistic tokens.Author's Profile
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