A Defence of the Cognitive Value of Contemporary Avant-Garde Art

我的项目将批判性地审视当代前卫艺术的认知价值。这个项目试图回答两个问题：1.为什么对于艺术史和哲学来说，“前卫”是一个恰当的概念来捕捉当代艺术的某些批判性实践？2.当代哲学，特别是认识论，如何帮助解释当代前卫艺术的认知野心？1989年后成熟的某些实践试图扩大艺术的正式边界，以挑战观众改变他们所居住的世界的思维方式。通过这种方式，他们的雄心壮志与那些被称为“前卫”的艺术历史学家的野心是持续的。目前的艺术哲学正在努力解释这一作品。必须开发哲学工具来提供更好的分析。我提出的新答案是专注于这些实践如何通过促进我们的理解来寻求并成功地改变我们在世界上的外在地位。这些作品如何指导我们的想象，并揭示出被边缘化的认识论立场，就是例证。把握当代先锋艺术的认知价值，有助于将先进的哲学作品与先进的艺术实践相结合。

My project will critically examine the cognitive value of contemporary avant-garde art. This project seeksto answer two questions:1. Why is 'avant-garde' an appropriate concept to capture certain critical practices of contemporary artfor art history and philosophy?2. How can contemporary philosophy, particularly epistemology, help to explain the cognitive ambitionsof contemporary avant-garde art?Certain practices which have reached maturation after 1989 have sought to expand the formalboundaries of art in order to challenge viewers to shift their thinking about the world they inhabit. In thisway, they have ambitions that are continuous with those art historians demarcate as 'avant-garde'.Current philosophy of art struggles to account for this work. Philosophical tools must be developed tooffer better analyses.The novel answer that I propose is to focus on how these practices seek and succeed in shifting ourepistemic standing in the world by contributing to our understanding. This is exemplified by how theseworks guide our imagining, and reveal marginalised epistemic positions. Grasping the cognitive value ofcontemporary avant-garde art will help to bring advanced philosophical work into connection withadvanced art practice.