PHL 365 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mick Jagger, Jane Austen
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Farenikova + prinz arbitrate what"s good in fashion at any given time. They are not contradicting those experts in the past they are talking about how the suit looks now that is consistent with having looked good in 1990. Still contradiction here fashion experts are always talking about the aesthetic value of things in a specific time. Its aesthetic value can change from one year to the next. The fashion experts are commenting on the changing aesthetic value. It doesn"t really make sense the aesthetic value of something cannot shift in this way over time: example, pride and prejudice jane austen. Witty, insightful, has well-rounded characters, a coherent plot in 1820. For stolnitz features of the book itself makes it this way. Humourless, clich d, has flat characters, an incoherent plot in 1990. The work itself has remained the same. Aesthetic value is about the work itself. The aesthetic value has changed over time in part by its context.