 A Portrait of the ArtistDavid M. Atkinson Chapter 6 in Thinking the Art of Management, 2007, pp 126-145 from Palgrave Macmillan Abstract: Abstract There are many public conceptions of what an Artist might be, as there are many — generally accepted — fine Artworks populating our museums and galleries. That a “work” of the process art might become accepted by an appropriate Artworld as (inter alia): poetry, text, painting, sculpture, or performance and so on, suggests that it is an almost futile task to attempt to produce a generic “portrait” of the artist. For that matter, what of the faux artiste also? However, in leaving aside such pragmatics, the approach in deriving CTA and its Art-aesthetic precepts of the sublime and attractive beauty has been necessarily theoretic. Thus, in considering the role of the artist in the process of art I do not, therefore, refer to the aesthetic categories of the sublime and beauty in their generally perceived autonomous sense, but in the sense that the sublime is the object of an art that allows — through a disinterested engagement with an attractive beauty — the meaning of an absent “other” to be communicated. This prompts the question “what can we learn about the real work of the Artist engaged in CTA?” Keywords: Artistic Vision; Aesthetic Judgement; Technical Achievement; Artistic Process; Free Decision (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-58998-8_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Palgrave Macmillan Books from Palgrave Macmillan |
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