The Central Artistic Task
摘要
In Chap. 5 , we identified the theory of problem-solving as a computationalist approach that explains human problem-solving behaviour in terms of a problem space, a search strategy, heuristics, evaluating and choosing among alternative actions, and a goal to be accomplished. In Chap. 7 , we made sense of the possible goals of art in terms of various theories of what art is (mimeticism, representationalism, neo-representationalism, expressivism, neo-formalism, anti-essentialism, institutionalism, and historicism). That by virtue of which an artifact qualifies as art rather than non-art has been parsed in terms of imitation, representation, the communication of semantic information (aboutness), the communication of individualized and clarified emotions, the exhibition of significant form, the relation of form and content in a satisfyingly appropriate manner, the satisfaction of emendable conditions of application of art and related concepts, the situation of the artifact within the institution of art, or the situation of the artifact within a historical narrative. In this chapter, we will make sense of the central artistic task.