ART AND INTENTION, A philosophical study
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loginDo the artist’s intentions have anything to do with the making andappreciation of works of art? InArt and Intention, Paisley Livingston developsa broad and balanced perspective on perennial disputes betweenintentionalists and anti-intentionalists in philosophical aesthetics andcritical theory. He surveys and assesses a wide range of rival assumptionsabout the nature of intentions and the status of intentionalistpsychology. With detailed reference to examples from diverse media,art forms, and traditions, he demonstrates that insights into the multiplefunctions of intentions have important implications for our understand-ing of artistic creation and authorship, the ontology of art, conceptions oftexts, works, and versions, basic issues pertaining to the nature of fictionand fictional truth, and the theory of art interpretation and appreciation.
