Book: Art as Object of Taste: David Hume
Hume grounds his argument in two ways. One way he says that
people believe it is possible to make critical judgments of the quality of a
work of art. On the other hand, he also says that his idea of antimony is what
grounds these judgments. Wartenberg used an example of the Mona Lisa itself
compared to an illustration by Rockwell. The general agreement is that da Vinci’s
original is significantly better. Hume then reasons that a critical judgment of
something is nothing more than an idiosyncratic reaction to a work. This
contradicts his first conclusion that there needs to be a standard in order to
judge a work. He explains this contradiction of his conclusions can happen
because certain elements of art are pleasurable to everyone.
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