To examine whether there is any truth in art, one needs to first understand what art is. It has been a question that has kept many philosophers busy trying to uncover, over the last few centuries.

One of the things that has been alleged to be the purpose of art is its cognitive function: art as a means to the acquisition of truth. Art has even been called the avenue to the highest knowledge available to humans and to a kind of knowledge impossible of attainment by any other means.

2024年5月21日 · In art, truth can be understood as authenticity, a genuine expression of the artist's vision. Abstract art, for example, may not represent reality in a literal sense, but it can convey deeper truths about human emotions and experiences.

ART, TRUTH IN The question of artistic truth first arises with the ancients. In his Republic, Plato argues that fine art and poetry cannot impart truths because they do not give humankind access to the Forms.

2023年7月27日 · Art isn't just about pretty pictures and catchy tunes. It's a powerful tool that philosophers use to explore deep questions about reality, knowledge, and morality. In the context of art and truth philosophy, art plays a monumental role in …

2017年5月21日 · In this paper I will look at the subjective aspect of truth in art. Some contemporary notions of art holds that art’s meaning is completely subjective. That is to say, the meaning of art is in the beholder not the artistic piece itself.

In this entry, however, we are not concerned with truth in fiction but rather with what it is for a work of art to be true of, or true to, the actual world. Representational works represent states of affairs, or objects portrayed in a certain way.

2013年3月11日 · Rapaport, Hermann (1997), Is There Truth in Art?, New York: Cornell University Press.Google Scholar

Several specific types of rejection of truth claims in art emerge from this general position. A first states broadly that art has nothing to do with truth and cannot convey knowledge. A second holds that art (especially literature) may express truth, but that when it …

Why, in any case, is there a need to find truth in art? Our age is so addicted to facts, to finding out the ‘truth’ about things that we are in danger of overlooking the true value of art. By trying to reduce art to a series of truth-statements, are we not diminishing it?