Wittgenstein wrote fairly little about art. He had more to say about aesthetic inquiry. “In aesthetics the question is not ‘Do…
Wittgenstein wrote fairly little about art. He had more to say about aesthetic inquiry. “In aesthetics the question is not ‘Do you like it?’ but ‘Why do you like it?’” And he explained, “Aesthetics is descriptive. What it does is to draw one’s attention to certain features, to place things side by side so as to exhibit these features. The aim of aesthetic inquiry is to bring more clearly into view that which is hidden in plain sight, that is to say, that which is not hidden at all. And its method consists, basically, in making “peculiar kinds of comparisons.”
Alva Noë. 2023. The Entanglement: How Art and Philosophy Make Us What We Are. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.