{"product_id":"speaking-of-art-9789024714919","title":"Speaking of Art","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): P. Kivy\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Springer\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the title of this book was meant to suggest, its subject is the way we talk about (and write about) works of art: or, rather, one of the ways, namely, the way we describe works of art for critical purposes. Be- cause I wished to restrict my subject matter in this way, I have made a sharp, and no doubt largely artificial distinction between describing and evaluating. And I must, at the outset, guard against a misreading of this distinction to which I have left myself open. In distinguishing between evaluative and descriptive aesthetic judgments, I am not saying that when I assert \"X is p,\" where p is a \"descriptive\" term like \"unified,\" or \"delicate,\" or \"garish,\" I may not at the same time be evaluating X too; and I am not saying that when I make the obviously \"evaluative\" assertion \"X is good,\" I may not be describing X. Clearly, if I say \"X is unified\" I am evaluating X in that unity is a good-making feature of works of art; and as it is correct in English at least to call an evaluation a description, I do not want to suggest that if an assertion is evaluative, it cannot be de- scriptive (although there have been many philosophers who have thought this indeed to be the case).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Springer","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45280499302551,"sku":"9789024714919","price":3672.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9789024714919.webp?v=1769296495","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/speaking-of-art-9789024714919","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}