A Response to Best on Art and Sport

A New Paradigm Relating Art and Sport

“…interested" experience such that a reciprocity between the two fields was not interrogated. While some theorists such as Reid (1970), Kupfer (2001), Best (1974Best ( , 1978Best ( , 1986, Wertz (1984), Welsch (2005) and others did engage with the question "Is sport art?" and deduced various answers, the question itself is flawed somewhat as it assumes that a kind of "essence" pertains to both.…”

“…My task then is to show how art-related aesthetics can be useful to explain and develop sport theory in a new way. "New" in the sense that an affinity between the two is described and argued for, although this has been somewhat developed in the recent past in the 1970s and 1980s triggered by Reid (1970), Kupfer (2001), Best (1979Best ( , 1986, Best (1979), Wertz (1984) and Cordner (1988). My intention or contribution is, unlike these writers, not a concern with the question whether sport is art, but simply developing a theoretical framework that motivates the theoretical overlap between art-related aesthetics and sport.…”

Sport Is Not Art: Professor Wertz's Aunt Sally

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