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The British Journal of Aesthetics 2008 48(2):115-144; doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayn001
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© British Society of Aesthetics 2008

The Propositional Challenge to Aesthetics

John Dilworth

John Dilworth, Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA

Email: dilworth{at}wmich.edu


  Abstract

It is generally accepted that Picasso might have used a different canvas as the vehicle for his painting Guernica, and also that the artwork Guernica itself necessarily represents a certain historical episode—rather than, say, a bowl of fruit. I argue that such a conjunctive acceptance entails a broadly propositional view of the nature of representational artworks. In addition, I argue—via a comprehensive examination of possible alternatives—that, perhaps surprisingly, there simply is no other available conjunctive view of the nature of representational artworks in general.


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