The artistic expression of feeling

Kemp, G. (2021) The artistic expression of feeling. Philosophia, 49(1), pp. 315-332. (doi: 10.1007/s11406-020-00252-z)

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Abstract

In the past 60 years or so, the philosophical subject of artistic expression has generally been handled as an inquiry into the artistic expression of emotion. In my view this has led to a distortion of the relevant territory, to the artistic expression of feeling’s too often being overlooked. I explicate the emotion-feeling distinction in modern terms (distinguishing mood as well), and urge that the expression of feeling is too central to be waived off as outside the proper philosophical subject of artistic expression. Restricting the discussion to the art of painting (and drawing), I sketch a partial psychological model for the exrtistic expression of feelipression of feeling. Although the feeling-emotion contrast is seldom made clear in their writings, I stress that many, or even most of the eminent pre-1960’s voices in aesthetics and art criticism—Croce, Dewey, Langer, Bosanquet, Berenson and others—would more or less agree that feeling is no less important for expression than emotion, and indeed can be interpreted as anticipating many points that I set forth.

Item Type:Articles
Status:Published
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Kemp, Dr Gary
Authors: Kemp, G.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Journal Name:Philosophia
Publisher:Springer
ISSN:0048-3893
ISSN (Online):1574-9274
Published Online:07 September 2020
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2020 The Author
First Published:First published in Philosophia 49(1): 315-332
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons licence

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