Art, Emotion and Ethics

by Berys Gaut (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $173.48

  Can a good work of art be evil? This book explores this issue, arguing that artworks are always aesthetically flawed if they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. It is of interest to anyone who wants to understand the relation of art to morality.

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $45.51

  Can a good work of art be evil? Berys Gaut argues that artworks are always aesthetically flawed if they have a moral defect that is aesthetically relevant. He shows how moral goodness is a kind of beauty, that artworks can teach us about morality, and that it is right for emotional responses to artworks to be guided in part by moral considerations.