George Dickie (philosopher)

George Dickie ( born August 12, 1926 in Palmetto, Florida) is an American philosopher. Dickie works exclusively in the field of aesthetics in the tradition of analytic philosophy. In his two major works of Art and the Aesthetic. An Institutional Analysis (1974 ) and The Art Circle. A Theory of Art ( 1984) he developed the theory of the art institution. While Dickie lasting influence on the discussion of analytic aesthetics in the Anglo- Saxon world, and his works are still largely unknown in Germany and yet remained untranslated.

Life

After completing his studies at Florida State University doctorate Dickie 1959 at the University of California with a dissertation on ethical theory, Francis Hutcheson, and then was at the University of Houston, Washington State University and the University of Edinburgh operates. From 1965 until retirement in a 1994/95 Dickie taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago. From 1992 to 1994 he was president of the American Society for Aesthetics. Awards and scholarships were awarded to him, among others, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies and the Guggenheim Foundation.

Art Theory

Starting from critical studies of classical theories of aesthetic experience, attitude and perception comes Dickie to the conclusion that art can not be determined with reference to mental states or immediately perceptible properties. Instead, suggests Dickie ago, an institution, the art world ( artworld ) to take to the starting point of the definition of art. A work of art is an artifact, where a group of experts has awarded the status of a work of art. According to the judgment Arthur C. Danto's theory Dickies implies an 'enabling elite ".

The concept of artworld took Dickie Danto. After his statement Dickie had " were, the Institutional Theory of Art [ ... ] from a creative misunderstanding of my writings " justified. Also, Danto sees his art theory as a theory of institutions, but unlike Dickie he understands the institutionally authored art world as a loose association of individuals who enter into a " discourse of reason ," the " transmits the status of art on things."

Dickie compares lending of the status of art with a naming ceremony, which is subject to certain conventions. He distinguishes primary and secondary conventions. Primary conventions require that artists and audience are involved in an artistic activity. Secondary conventions determine how works of art are present.

Works

  • Aesthetics. An Introduction, Indianapolis 1971
  • Art and the Aesthetic. An Institutional Analysis, Ithaca, London 1974
  • Aesthetics: A critical Anthology (together with RJ Sclafani / R. Roblin [ eds. ] ), New York 1977
  • The Art Circle. A Theory of Art, New York, 1984
  • Evaluating Art in Philadelphia in 1988
  • The Century of Taste. The Philosophical Odyssey of Taste in the Eighteenth Century, Oxford 1995
  • Introduction to Aesthetics. An Analytic Approach, New York in 1997
  • Art and Value, Malden, inter alia, 2001
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