Dall'oggetto estetico all'oggetto artistico

Abstract

Does such a thing as an "aesthetic" object exist? And if so, how can it be defined? This book, with no less than 23 contributions, emerging from a Seminar on Aesthetics and a Convention of the Italian Philosophical Society, seeks to answer these questions, exploring the concept of the aesthetic object as distinct from the artistic object. The first section is theoretical and attempts to identify what are the aesthetic properties of an object as opposed to the physical or semantic. This is followed by a historical-aesthetic section, where the question is explored in terms of its theoretical effects within the coils of contemporary aesthetics. Finally, there is a third part devoted to grasping the object-dimension in certain occasions of contemporary art.