title: Normative and scientific approaches to the understanding and evaluation of art.
abstract: The psycho-historical framework proposes that appreciators' responses to art vary as a function of their sensitivity to its historical dimensions. However, the explanatory power of that framework is limited insofar as it assimilates relevantly different kinds of appreciation and insofar as it eschews a normative account of when a response succeeds in qualifying as an appreciation of art qua art.
authors.affiliation: Philosophy Department, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA. jsg8@columbia.edu
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gilmore
mesh_terms: D001154:Art / Q000266:history*; D003071:Cognition; D004954:Esthetics / Q000266:history* / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011582:Psychological Theory; D011584:Psychology / Q000379:methods*