Happy to share the published version of "Art, Understanding, and Mystery"! I often hear some version of the thought that it's bad to understand artworks; this paper attempts to make that claim precise and show one way to defend artistic understanding! journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Apparent orthodoxy holds that artistic understanding is finally valuable. Artistic understanding—grasping, as such, the features of an artwork that make it aesthetically or artistically good or bad—is...
