• Essays in Honour of Lars-Olof Åhlberg 25 Essays, Aesthetics
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    Metaphorically Speaking (review)
    Mind 110 (438): 523-526. 2001.
  •  17
    The Art to End All Arts
    Nordic Journal of Aesthetics 23 (46). 2013.
    The death of art has been a notion used in connection with the development and progress of art. This view of the development of art, the movement from one position to another, can go on forever. From another view, we see art as part of a narration, which makes the death of art absolute and final, even though art is still produced. In our time, the American philosopher A. C. Danto uses Hegel’s developmental view on history to explain pictorial Western art from the Renaissance up until now. In Dan…Read more
  •  4
    Art from death originated
    Art and Theory Publishing. 2013.
    Every artwork is the first and last of its kind. Nothing happens the same way twice. But if this is the case, then what limits can we impose on our understanding of the historical development of art? The poles in our conceptual schema of the development of art are analogous to human life, which is placed between two poles of non-existence. This schema is used in our understanding of art, interpretation, and metaphor. Being a complex part in the intersection between life and death, this becomes t…Read more
  •  16
    Metaphor, interpretation, and contextualization
    Danish Yearbook of Philosophy 31 (1): 21-38. 1996.