Aesthetics: Crash Course Philosophy #31
How do art and morality intersect? Today we look at an ethically questionable work of art and discuss R. G. Collingwood's view that art is best when it helps us live better lives. We'll...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace: share your passion with the world. At a museum in Denmark in 2000, artist Marco Evaristti debuted a work of art that involved live goldfish swimming around in vessels full of water. Sound pretty boring until I tell you that those vessels were electric blenders. Evaristti named his display “Helena” and he invited museum patrons to turn on the blenders if they so desired. Eventually, at least one person so desired, fish were blended, and before long police arrived, ordering that the blenders be unplugged. The museum was charged with animal cruelty, although those charges were later dropped. For his part, Evaristti said that his work was designed to sort people into three categories: If you w...
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Crash Course Philosophy is brought to you by Squarespace. Squarespace: share your passion with the world. At a museum in Denmark in 2000, artist Marco Evaristti debuted a work of art that involved live goldfish swimming around in vessels full of water. Sound pretty boring until I tell you that those vessels were electric blenders. Evaristti named his display “Helena” and he invited museum patrons to turn on the blenders if they so desired. Eventually, at least one person so desired, fish were blended, and before long police arrived, ordering that the blenders be unplugged. The museum was charged with animal cruelty, although those charges were later dropped. For his part, Evaristti said that his work was designed to sort people into three categories: If you w...
