ABSTRACT

The aim of this series is to make available texts and collections of essays on major moral issues. The present volume is a collection that focuses exclusively on diverse moral issues connected with the arts: censorship and subsidy, authenticity and ownership, and the connections between moral and aesthetic values and evaluative judgments. The collection is not only unique, but timely. It appears in a period when the National Endowment for the Arts is under fire and the government’s role in the arts is a hotly debated political issue, when the connection between moral or political content in art and its aesthetic value remains at the forefront of debate in aesthetics, and when ownership and commercialization of artworks continue to exercise the sociology of art.

chapter |25 pages

Introduction

part 1|48 pages

Censorship

part 2|65 pages

Creations and Re-Creations

chapter 4|20 pages

Art and Inauthenticity

chapter 5|18 pages

Forging Issues from Forged Art

chapter 6|25 pages

No Dance Is a Fake

part 3|58 pages

Artistic Property

part 5|41 pages

Aesthetic Values and Moral Values