Philosophical analysis of metaphor in the non-linguistic arts has been biased towards what I call the ‘aesthetic metaphor’: metaphors in non-linguistic art are normally understood as being completely formed by the work's internal content, that is, by its perceptual and aesthetic properties such as its images. I aim to unearth and analyse a neglected type of metaphor also used by the non-linguistic arts: the ‘artistic metaphor’, as I call it. An artistic metaphor is composed by an artwork's internal content, but also by its external content, which is provided by the work's artistic properties such as its history. The artistic metaphor has been gestured at but not afforded a considered analysis; I aim to do this. Identifying the artistic metaphor has at least two benefits. It shows how curation plays a role in generating metaphors in artworks, which has been overlooked, and it illuminates a potentially powerful tool to interpret and understand ‘conceptual’ art.

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艺术隐喻

非语言艺术中隐喻的哲学分析偏向于我所说的“审美隐喻”：非语言艺术中的隐喻通常被理解为完全由作品的内部的内容，也就是说，通过它的感知和审美属性，比如它的图像。我的目标是挖掘和分析非语言艺术也使用的一种被忽视的隐喻类型：我称之为“艺术隐喻”。艺术隐喻是由一件艺术品的内在内容构成的，但也由它的内在内容构成。外部的内容由作品的艺术属性（例如其历史）提供。艺术隐喻已被提及，但没有经过深思熟虑的分析；我的目标是做到这一点。识别艺术隐喻至少有两个好处。它展示了策展如何在艺术作品中产生隐喻，这一点被忽视了，它阐明了一种潜在的强大工具来解释和理解“概念”艺术。