“The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism” è una pubblicazione accademica rispettata che copre vari argomenti legati all’estetica e alla critica d’arte. Anche se non posso fornire il contenuto specifico di un articolo intitolato “Cos’è un oggetto antico?” da quel diario senza accedervi, posso offrire una comprensione generale di cosa sia un oggetto d’antiquariato.
Un oggetto d’antiquariato è generalmente definito come un oggetto di notevole età, di solito almeno 100 anni, ed è apprezzato per il suo significato storico, rarità, artigianalità o fascino estetico. Gli oggetti d’antiquariato possono includere oggetti come mobili, opere d’arte, ceramiche, gioielli, libri e altro ancora. Il valore di un oggetto d’antiquariato dipende spesso da fattori quali le sue condizioni, la provenienza e l’attuale domanda di mercato tra collezionisti e appassionati. Inoltre, gli oggetti d’antiquariato possono fornire spunti sulla cultura, la tecnologia e gli stili artistici del passato, rendendoli preziosi non solo dal punto di vista monetario ma anche come manufatti storici. Per maggiori informazioni per favore visita librirarieantichi
Collectibles are without a doubt protests deserving of stylish appreciation, however do they have an unmistakable tasteful worth in righteousness of being collectibles? Our point in this article isn’t to address this question straightforwardly, yet rather to supply some essential preparation expected for responding to it. We offer an examination of what to be a collectible gives the postulation that they really do have an unmistakable tasteful worth a possibility being valid and proposes what that particular worth comprises in.
Considering that normal collectibles are generally completely nonrepresentational and were initially made to serve a particular nonaesthetic capability (for instance, antique seats were made to be sat on), it is conceivable that the tasteful worth of a regular rarity lies part of the way in how well its conventional properties (specifically, those stylishly significant properties that are, in some sense, quickly graspable in experience) are offset with those properties that permit it to satisfy its expected capability. In any case, albeit any meaning of a rarity should permit that its conventional properties are stylishly significant, this can’t be the entire story, for this wouldn’t recognize collectibles from recently made things.
Arthur Danto’s well known contention against formalism about the stylish worth of craftsmanship (1981, 94-95; 1986, 30-31) has a simple on account of collectibles. Think about a real classical seat (say, a Hepplewhite) and a recently made atom‐for‐atom copy created by a high‐tech replicating gadget. Similarly as a unique piece of fine art has fundamentally more worth than any duplicate, it appears to be the veritable Hepplewhite has essentially more worth than its duplicate too.1 This obviously sums up, thus, it appears, a significant piece of a rarity item’s tasteful worth gets from its ownership of certain outward nonformal properties.2 However which properties are important here? Antiformalists about the worth of workmanship most frequently appeal to specific extraneous authentic properties, for example, the setting in which the craftsmanship object was made, its connection to the artworld, and its technique for creation. Properties like these are no question significant on account of collectibles as well, yet this appears to miss something significant. Assuming collectibles have a particular stylish worth, it appears it is one that they gain after some time. Despite the fact that they have the outward properties of being made in a specific setting and utilizing a specific strategy for creation from the second they appear, it is just later that they gain their full stylish waiting patiently, becoming collectibles. Such that it isn’t the case in that frame of mind of workmanship objects having a particular age itself appears, at first sight, to be a tastefully significant property on account of collectibles. Correspondingly, it appears to be that the stylish enthusiasm for an old collectible is unmistakable in that it includes, in some sense, an enthusiasm for this very property.3
