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Intention and the Achievement of the Artist

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 June 2010

Geoffrey Payzant
Geoffrey Payzant
Affiliation:
University of Toronto
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Extract

There are three kinds of aesthetical theory in which it would have to be admitted that the intentions of the artist are of almost no significance.

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Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review / Revue canadienne de philosophie , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 1964 , pp. 153 - 159
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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1964

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References

1 Aiken, H. D., “The Aesthetic Relevance of the Artist's Intentions,” The Journal of Philosophy, LII, No. 24 (November, 1955, pp. 742–753).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Notice that this is not a careless return to the naturalistic type of theory mentioned in the beginning. I am not talking about how repressive tensions are got past the “Censor” and led safely to earth in art, but about how the repressive tensions are dodged without altering them for better or for worse.