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The British Journal of Aesthetics 2008 48(2):162-174; doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayn003
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© British Society of Aesthetics 2008

Collingwood'S ‘Performance’ Theory Of Art

David Davies

David Davies, Department of Philosophy, McGill University, 855 Sherbrooke Street West, Montréal, Québec, H3A 2T7, Canada

Email: david.davies{at}mcgill.ca


  Abstract

Even if we reject the Wollheimian reading of Collingwood as an Idealist in the ontology of art, it remains puzzling how his non-Idealist ontology fits with his idea of art as expression. In trying to clarifying these matters, I argue that (i) the work of art, for Collingwood, is an activity, not the product of an activity; (ii) puzzling features of the Principles arise from attempts to reconcile this claim with the idea of art as expression while preserving the art/craft distinction; and (iii) Collingwood's principal concern in the Principles is with the role of imagination in experience.


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