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What is an antique?

Curtis, B.L. and Baines, D., 2016. What is an antique? Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 74 (1), 75 - 86.

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DOI: 10.1111/jaac.12237

Abstract

Antiques are undoubtedly objects worthy of aesthetic appreciation, but do they have a distinctive aesthetic value in virtue of being antiques? In this article we give an account of what it is to be an antique that gives the thesis that they do have a distinctive aesthetic value a chance of being true and suggests what that distinctive value consists in. After introducing our topic in Section I, in Section II we develop and defend the Adjectival Thesis: the thesis that the concept of being an antique is an adjectival concept. This provides us with the means to formulate our definition, which we do in Section III. In Section IV we further explicate and defend our definition. In Section V we conclude by briefly saying where we think our definition could be improved, by making a few comments about the aesthetics of antiques and by stating an interesting consequence of our definition: that it is not analytic that antiques are old.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:0021-8529
Group:Bournemouth University Business School
ID Code:30647
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:01 May 2018 10:30
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 14:10

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