Denis Dutton's Aesthetic Universals
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The philosopher Denis Dutton has identified seven universal signatures in human aesthetics which we call Denis Dutton's Aesthetic Universals summarized here by Steven Pinker in The Blank Slate
- Expertise or virtuosity. Technical artistic skills are cultivated, recognized, and admired.
- Nonutilitarian pleasure. People enjoy art for art's sake, and don't demand that it keep them warm or put food on the table.
- Style. Artistic objects and performances satisfy rules of composition that place them in a recognizable style.
- Criticism. People make a point of judging, appreciating, and interpreting works of art.
- Imitation. With a few important exceptions like music and abstract painting, works of art simulate experiences of the world.
- Special focus. Art is set aside from ordinary life and made a dramatic focus of experience.
- Imagination. Artists and their audiences entertain hypothetical worlds in the theater of the imagination.
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References
Denis Dutton, 'Aesthetic Universals', in The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, edited by Berys Gaut and Dominic McIver Lopes, (2001), London and New York: Routledge, pp.
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