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In this lucid and insightful essay, renowned linguist Roy Harris reflects on the early nineteenth-century doctrine of art for arts sake. This was attacked by Proudhon and Nietzsche, but defended by Thophile Gautier and E. M. Forster. It influenced movements as diverse as futurism and Dada. Over the past two centuries, three main positions have emerged. The institutional view declares art to be a status conferred upon certain works by the approval of influential institutions. The idiocentric view gives absolute priority to the judgment of the individual. The third is the conceptual view of art, which insists that what counts is the idea that inspired a work, not the physical execution. But as Harris shows, the tacit assumptions which once supported this Debate and these positions have now collapsed. Art as a coherent category has imploded, leaving behind a historical residue of empty questions that contemporary society can no longer answer. The Great Debate about Art provides much needed signposts for understanding this sorry state of affairs.

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Author

Harris, Roy, 1931-

Publisher

Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780984201006

Category

history

Subjects

Art, History, Arts

Rating

3.5 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14