OTAKAR ZICH: AESTHETIC AND ARTISTIC EVALUATION, PART 1

• Authors: Dykast Roman
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In this important article, first published in 1917, the Czech aesthetician, musicologist, and composer Otakar Zich (1879-1934) distinguishes between two kinds of evaluation of a work of art: aesthetic evaluation and artistic evaluation. He bases this differentiation on two possible attitudes that a perceiver may have towards a work of art. The first originates solely in the perceiver's experience of the work and his or her search for a feeling of pleasure. It reflects only the subjective preferences of the individual; Zich terms the corresponding value 'relative aesthetic value'. Above the relative value of an emotional effect there is an evaluation of a higher order, which consists in 'comprehending' a work of art. It is to this evaluation that artistic value corresponds. According to Zich, however, this objective value is grounded not in the work itself, but in the distinctive 'personal value' of the artist. In artistic evaluation, the work of art is therefore evaluated as a manifestation of strong artistic individuality.

Keywords

EN

AESTHETIC EVALUATION; AESTHETIC JUDGEMENT; APPRECIATION; JUSTIFICATION; VALUE; ZICH OTAKAR

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 46
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 179-201
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Dykast Roman

• Roman Dykast, Music Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts, Czech Republic; http://dlib.lib.cas.cz/4684/

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10CZAAAA07568