What Art Does - Using Philosophy of Technology to Talk About Art

The question of what and how artworks mean things is conventionally satisfied by appealing to literature from either philosophy of art or philosophy of language. This book offers an alternative by positioning art as a type of meaning-making tool whose function can only be understood through the application of the philosophy of technology.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1. Conditions
Chapter 2. Functions
Chapter 3. Affordances
Chapter 4. Artworlds
Chapter 5. Artworks
References
About the Author

About the author

Ryan Wittingslow is an assistant professor at the University of Groningen, a senior Humboldt fellow at TU Darmstadt, and a research affiliate of the University of Sydney. Most of his research sits at the meeting ground between aesthetics, philosophy of design, philosophy of technology, and political philosophy.

Product details

• Authors: Ryan Mitchell Wittingslow
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781538167328
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6732-8
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Global Aesthetic Research
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, The arts: general issues, ART / Museum Studies, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The arts: general topics