Cézanne on the Banks of the Marne

Abstract

AbstractThe purpose of philosophical aesthetics is not to dictate rules for the evaluation of works of art, but to provide theories of our valuation of art, that is, accounts of the ways in which we value art that can illuminate our experience of it. A sample of what philosophers and philosophical critics over the years, such as R.G. Collingwood, Maurice‐Merleau Ponty, and Clive Bell, have had to say about the painting of Cezanne shows the variety of ways in which we can experience painting such as his, and a work like the Art Galley of New South Wales's beautiful On the Banks of the Marne shows the benefits of a pluralistic rather than monistic approach to the experience of art.