Taking Art Personally: Austin, Performatives and Art

This paper is an attempt to apply speech act theory to aesthetics. In particular, it purports to be a contribution to reception theory by drawing attention to certain similarities between the contextual structure of performatives and the structure of the reception of art. It hopes to locate the au...

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Main Author: David Goldblatt
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Contemporary Aesthetics, Inc. 2011-01-01
Series:Contemporary Aesthetics
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Online Access:http://www.contempaesthetics.org/newvolume/pages/article.php?articleID=612