Authorship and Creation
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, cilt.79, sa.2, ss.175-185, 2021 (AHCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Cilt numarası: 79 Sayı: 2
- Basım Tarihi: 2021
- Doi Numarası: 10.1093/jaac/kpab004
- Dergi Adı: Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), Scopus, Academic Search Premier, IBZ Online, Periodicals Index Online, Art Abstracts, Art Index, Art Source, Film & Television Literature Index, Humanities Abstracts, Index Islamicus, International Bibliography of Art, International Bibliography of Theatre & Dance (IBTD), MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Music Index, Music Periodicals Database, Performing Arts Periodicals Database, Philosopher's Index, DIALNET
- Sayfa Sayıları: ss.175-185
- Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Artworks have authors. According to Christy Mag Uidhir, this simple assumption has significant consequences for the ontology of artworks. One such consequence is that artworks cannot be identified with abstract entities: If there are works of art, they are concrete entities. Therefore, one cannot create an abstract work of art. Mag Uidhir presents a novel challenge against abstract creationism, the view that certain kinds of art objects are abstract artifacts. This article has two aims. First, it provides a defense of abstract creationism against Mag Uidhir's arguments. Second, it argues that creation, even in the case of concrete artifacts, is never purely causal: To create an artifact is to bring about the conditions on which the created object ontologically depends. I conclude that a properly developed account of creation provides a better understanding of the question of how one comes to create an artifact, be it abstract or concrete.