Meaning and truth in the arts.

Hardcover, 252 pages

English language

Published Oct. 3, 1946 by University of North Carolina Press.

ISBN:: 978-0-8078-4008-5

The analytical approach that Hospers offers in this work can be very useful, as a point of discussion, for analyzing the interpretations of the concepts of meaning and truth in different artistic genres (especially in music, painting, and literature) and, moreover, for clarifying and appropriately using the language of aesthetics in its effective and rigorous applications to the field of art criticism. With "Meaning and Truth in Art" (1946), the entire methodological reduction, instrumental revision, and rethinking of its very foundations become essential in the development of any research process—such as that of aesthetics, in this case—in order to return to new restructuring attempts and face the future with greater analytical discernment and new perspectives from the philosophy of language.

(Translated from Spanish)

The analytical approach that Hospers offers in this work can be very useful, as a point of discussion, for analyzing the interpretations of the concepts of meaning and truth in different artistic genres (especially in music, painting, and literature) and, moreover, for clarifying and appropriately using the language of aesthetics in its effective and rigorous applications to the field of art criticism. With "Meaning and Truth in Art" (1946), the entire methodological reduction, instrumental revision, and rethinking of its very foundations become essential in the development of any research process—such as that of aesthetics, in this case—in order to return to new restructuring attempts and face the future with greater analytical discernment and new perspectives from the philosophy of language.

(Translated from Spanish)

1 edition

JIm FUlner reviewed Meaning and truth in the arts. by John Hospers

Review

2 stars

I have many books by Libertarians. I heard of this one and just had to add it to my queue. [return][return]Hospers was the first ever POTUS candidate for the Libertarian Party nominated in 1972. As of 2017 he is still the only of our nominees to have received an electoral college vote. But this book was going to be different it wasn't about pie-in-the-sky ideologies, nor solutions for communicating, or nuts-and-bolts politics. Nope this is a scholarly work on art. [return][return]And boy, I can tell you why folks thought he was gay. [return][return]I had hoped for some extensively trip. An LSD laddened libertarian adventure into finding meaning in art. All I got was a bunch of pie-in-the-sky scholarly nose-in-the-air crap about how we know art has value even though it doesn't meet the subjective value test for most folks. [return][return]It is a yawn for anyone who dosn't have a PhD …

I have many books by Libertarians. I heard of this one and just had to add it to my queue. [return][return]Hospers was the first ever POTUS candidate for the Libertarian Party nominated in 1972. As of 2017 he is still the only of our nominees to have received an electoral college vote. But this book was going to be different it wasn't about pie-in-the-sky ideologies, nor solutions for communicating, or nuts-and-bolts politics. Nope this is a scholarly work on art. [return][return]And boy, I can tell you why folks thought he was gay. [return][return]I had hoped for some extensively trip. An LSD laddened libertarian adventure into finding meaning in art. All I got was a bunch of pie-in-the-sky scholarly nose-in-the-air crap about how we know art has value even though it doesn't meet the subjective value test for most folks. [return][return]It is a yawn for anyone who dosn't have a PhD in Art.