Paradoxically, such significance is typically attributed to objects neither supposed as art, nor especially intended to be perceived aesthetically – for example, votive, devotional, commemorative or utilitarian artefacts. Furthermore, aesthetic pursuits could be eclipsed by dubious investment practices and social kudos. When mixed with superstar and dangerous types of narcissism, they’ll egregiously affect inventive authenticity. These pursuits may be overriding, and spawn merchandise masquerading as art. Then it’s up to discerning observers to spot any Fads, Fakes and Fantasies . There is not any generally agreed definition of what constitutes art, and its interpretation has varied greatly all through historical past and across cultures.
This fallacy would later be repudiated by theorists from the reader-response school of literary theory. Ironically, one of the main theorists from this college, Stanley Fish, was himself trained by New Critics. Fish criticizes Wimsatt and Beardsley in his 1970 essay “Literature in the Reader”. The …