The Test of Time: An Essay in Philosophical Aesthetics

by Anthony Savile

Seeks a justification for the evaluative inferences that critics draw from such claims that a work of art has "withstood the test of time," The idea of "stature" is contrasted with that of "excellence" or "goodness," and is shown to be a notion indispensable to any elaborated theory of art.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198245904
• ISBN13: 9780198245902
• Release Date: August 1982
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.