Thinking About Art and Aesthetic Value
Richard Marshall,
3:16,
Feb 13, 2021
I went into this post because I wanted to think about how it presented 'value' in art. I prefer not to use economics-laden terms like 'value' and 'worth'. So I though there might be a point of criticism to be made. What attracted me is the statement that "artistic value is pluralistic, because it is a composite, second-order value... it is composed of other values without being identical to any of them: aesthetic value, ethical value, cognitive value, art-historical value among others". Here philosopher Robert Stecker is arguing that "it is not aesthetic value that is pluralistic but artistic value." Here he is separating both artistic value and aesthetic value from economic or utilitarian value (such as hiding a hole in the wall). But values cannot always be separated; that's why Stecker describes 'value entanglement' for cases where different values cannot be separated, for example, the sentimental and the expressive values of a song.
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