Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
New Production ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Made In

Artistic Creation and Ethical Criticism advances a new, production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. Its overarching arguments are these: (1) Judgments of an artwork’s ethical value are often made in terms of how it was created, and, furthermore, this is in part because some art forms more readily lend themselves to this form of ethical appraisal. (2) Among the ways in which art is ethically criticized, this production-oriented approach more often leads to practical consequences (censure, dismissal, prosecution, shifts in policy, legislation) because its claim to objectivity is less contested than that of other sorts of ethical criticism. (3) Together, (1) and (2) constitute an approach to the ethical criticism of art that is not only tacit in many art appreciative practices, but which is rationally warranted and defensible. In short, there are many cases in which one should ethically critique artworks in terms of how they are created because this approach encompasses cases that other approaches cannot and results in plausible judgments about the works’ ethical merits and flaws.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Made In

This chapter summarizes the methods, arguments, and contents of the overall book. It outlines the central considerations in support of the production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. It claims that judgments of an artwork’s ethical value are often made (and often should be made) in terms of how it was created and, furthermore, that this is in part because some art forms more readily lend themselves to this form of ethical appraisal. In addition, the chapter claims that among the ways in which we ethically criticize art, this production-oriented approach more often leads to practical consequences (censure, dismissal, prosecution, legislation) because its claim to objectivity is less contested than that of other sorts of ethical criticism.

Environmental Art and the Interaction of Ethical and Aesthetic Value

2020 ◽  
pp. 127-150
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Environmental Art ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Oriented Approach

This chapter argues that (1) in contrast to the art forms already discussed, the ethical criticism of which sometimes invites the perspectivist approach and sometimes demands the production-oriented approach, the proper ethical criticism of environmental art requires the production-oriented approach; (2) the production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of environmental artworks lends support to the moderate moralist’s claim about the interaction of ethical and aesthetic value: the presences of ethical defects in environmental artworks sometimes diminishes their aesthetic value; (3) because environmental artworks appropriate part of the natural environment as an aspect of their identity, an aesthetic flaw in an environmental artwork necessarily also creates aesthetic disvalue in the natural environment—disvalue that exists in virtue of the creation of the artwork. Insofar as the diminishment of the aesthetic value of the natural environment is ethically wrong, the aesthetic flaws of an environmental artwork necessarily constitute ethical flaws.

A Problem Oriented Enterprise Architecture Approach Applied to Wicked Problems

2012 ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Bernard Robertson-Dunn ◽  
Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Architecture ◽  
Wicked Problems ◽  
Optimal Solutions ◽  
Effectiveness And Efficiency ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Made In

This chapter proposes that a problem oriented approach to Enterprise Architecture can deliver a better outcome than one based upon needs and requirements, especially when dealing with Wicked Problems. A distinction is drawn between what an Enterprise Architect does, solve business problems, and what the architect produces, descriptions of end states. It also suggests that the approach to modeling and understanding a problem can have significant impacts on the quality, effectiveness, and efficiency of potential solutions and the decisions made in identifying optimal solutions and implementation projects. Finally, the chapter discusses the use of the proposed problem oriented Enterprise Architecture approach to Wicked Problems in the context of e-Government.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 243-252
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Moral Psychology ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
Artistic Creation ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Parallel Path ◽  
Ethical Context ◽  
The One ◽  
Future Work

This chapter summarizes the book’s central claims and looks at paths for future work on the applied ethics of artistic creation and ethical criticism. It suggests the need for two parallel strands of inquiry: On the one hand, as the term “applied ethics” suggests, there is a need for a finer-grained understanding of both the artistic and ethical contexts of artistic creation—an understanding that will need to be informed by research across a number of fields, including anthropology, art history, and moral psychology. On the other hand, whatever details of that context are revealed by this fine-grained analysis, there will be a more abstract conceptual challenge about how to reconcile the norms of that art-historical and ethical context with those in currency in the art-historical and ethical context from which one is judging the work. So, the parallel path of inquiry is in metaethics.

Philosophical Aesthetics and the Ethical Criticism of Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-46
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Civil Liability ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
The Real ◽  
Oriented Approach

This chapter critically reviews an approach to the ethical criticism of art that has dominated attention in philosophical aesthetics. The author calls it the “interpretation-oriented approach” and “perspectivism.” On this approach, art is ethically evaluated in terms of its meanings—in particular, in terms of the attitudes or perspectives the work embodies, endorses, expresses, or prescribes. The author raises two central objections to perspectivism: it does not carry much force in the real world (i.e., it tends not to result in criminal or civil liability, fines, censorship, and so forth), and it depends upon the contentious task of interpreting the work.

Improving Policing: A Problem-Oriented Approach

1979 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Police Departments ◽  
Police Agencies ◽  
Operating Methods ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Made In

The police have been particularly susceptible to the "means over ends" syndrome, placing more emphasis in their improvement efforts on organization and operating methods than on the substantive outcome of their work. This condition has been fed by the professional movement within the police field, with its concentration on the staffing, management, and organization of police agencies. More and more persons are questioning the widely held assumption that improvements in the internal man agement of police departments will enable the police to deal more effectively with the problems they are called upon to handle. If the police are to realize a greater return on the investment made in improving their oper ations, and if they are to mature as a profession, they must concern them selves more directly with the end product of their efforts.

scholarly journals The LTA project: Bridging the gap between training and the profession in real-time intralingual subtitling

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlo Eugeni ◽  
Rocío Bernabé Caro
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Training Materials ◽  
Professional Profile ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
The Eu ◽  
Made In

Real-time intralingual subtitles enable access to live audiovisual products. However, the provision and the quality of such services across Europe is uneven and sometimes insufficient because live subtitlers are untrained or only partially trained and without recognized professional status. To bridge this gap, the EU-funded project Live Text Access (LTA) aims to create ad-hoc training materials and propose the recognition of certified professionals. This article first concentrates on the multifaceted and heterogeneous terminology adopted in the field. Then it provides an overview of the current situation in which live subtitlers are trained in Europe, focusing on the LTA rationale for creating open-source training materials based on certification, subtitling standards and a user-oriented approach. Finally, it reports on the progress the project has made in defining both the professional profile and the skills and competences of the intralingual real-time subtitler.

scholarly journals From Motherhood to Fatherhood: The Eclipse of Reason in the Taviani Brothers’ Tu ridi

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Manuela Gieri
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Historical Discourse ◽  
San Lorenzo ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Depth Analysis ◽  
Art Forms ◽  
Made In

The paper presents an in-depth analysis of Tu ridi, a free adaptation of some of Luigi Pirandello’s short stories, realized by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1998. Within a filmography largely characterized by an attention to the historical, social, and political transformations that Italy experienced over the second half of the twentieth century, special attention should be paid to the films the Tavianis made in a close dialogue with literature, a closeness that has always been particularly fortunate for both art forms. Over the decades, they have recurrently practised the art of adaptation bringing to the screen, among other literary texts, several of Luigi Pirandello’s short stories in films such as Tu ridi, and Kaos (1984). Unquestionably, literature has often been instrumental for the Tavianis’ investigation of reality, and my analysis will place in a close dialogue Tu ridi, their 1982 film La notte di San Lorenzo and, last but not least, Kaos, since in all tthree works the Tavianis’ agenda seems to be the same: to interrogate and overturn official historical discourse in order to unveil the complex and multifaceted truth that lies under the surface of things, and thus to rewrite the very narration about Neorealism and its overcoming.

Animals in Contemporary Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 103-126
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Prima Facie ◽  
Art World ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
The World ◽  
Oriented Approach ◽  
Moral Respect

With reference to a number of contemporary cases, such as that surrounding the Guggenheim’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World exhibition, this chapter argues that some important controversies about the ethics of art can be explained in terms of a disconnect between people who tacitly adopt the perspectivist (or another interpretation-oriented) approach to ethical criticism and people who tacitly adopt a production-oriented approach to ethical criticism. The chapter argues that perspectivism tends to be favored not only in philosophical aesthetics, but also in art criticism and in many art world institutions. In contrast, non-specialists tend to tacitly adopt the production-oriented approach. In the case of the use of animals in contemporary art, current controversies are further explained by the fact that, given some fairly uncontroversial premises about the moral respect that we owe to non-human animals, people who evaluate such work from a production-oriented approach are likely to find much that is prima facie ethically blameworthy. Moreover, they are rationally warranted in doing so.

The Production-Oriented Approach to the Ethical Criticism of Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-68
Author(s):  
Ted Nannicelli
Keyword(s):  
Virtue Ethics ◽  
Virtue Epistemology ◽  
Moral Agent ◽  
Ethical Criticism ◽  
General Argument ◽  
Ethical Evaluation ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Moral Agents ◽  
In Virtue Of ◽  
Oriented Approach

This chapter sketches the general argument for the production-oriented approach to the ethical criticism of art. It begins by noting that at least some artworks (of performance art, for example) are isomorphic with the actions by which they are created. Such artworks are open to ethical evaluation in the same way that any action of a moral agent is open to ethical appraisal. This clears the conceptual space for the production-oriented approach. The chapter goes on to show that the production-oriented approach has an advantage over the interpretation-oriented approaches advocated by Booth, Devereaux, and Gaut in virtue of its ability to assign praise or blame to real moral agents who are responsible for their artworks. The chapter then bolsters the rationale for the production-oriented approach by appealing to anti-empiricist arguments in the aesthetics literature before drawing upon an analogy to similar arguments in virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.

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