미술비평에서 다원주의와 가치 평가의 문제 = Pluralism and Evaluation in Art Criticism

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The purpose of this paper is to examne pluralism and evaluation in art criticism. One of its important issues is the justification of an artwork's evaluation. In the age of modern art there was such a strong belief that artworks have their own unique value. However the advent of artowrk which borrows an image from others or non-artistic things leads us into the doubt about artworks' unique value and reliable criteria.
The first question arises as to whether there is a crietrion n the evaluation of artworks. I argue that there ar various criteria. The appropriation of images frustrates the attempt to find out a unique value in art's form or its content. Due to the diversity of values in artworks, they should be evaluated on the basis of how well they achieve their objectives. I conclude that it is possible to evaluate artworks in the same way and that it is far more reasonable to evaluate in the pluralistic way, rather than in the monistic one.
The second question is about how to evaluate artworks in the pluaralistic way. I examine the pluralistic way through A. Danto's thesis. His "End of Art"thesis does not allow unique values of artworks. Therefore contemporary art is considered as a free state of arts. I assert that it is possible to evaluate artworks only when one creates artworks with the same objective and the same mode of representation. Finally I emphasize that it is impossible to evaluate artworks only with perceiving the appearance of artworks.