The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1999) - High and Low Art, and High and Low Audiences

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• article: High and Low Art, and High and Low Audiences
• author(s): Ted Cohen
• journal: The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (1999)
• issue: volume 57, issue 2, pages 137-143
• journal ISSN: 0021-8529
• publisher: Blackwell Publishing
• keywords: Aesthetics, Alfred Hitchcock, Art, Art forms, Audiences, Chicago, Illinois, Feature films, Film theory, New York City, New York, North by Northwest (1959), Performing Arts and Other Disciplines, Philosophy, Popular culture, Stanley Cavell, Visual artists

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Abstract

There are high audiences and low audiences for art, and there are works approriate to each, works of fine art and works of popular art. Cohen considers the question of for whom an artist thinks of himself as making art.