I oktober kommer en ny bok med titeln The Art of Videogames (New Directions in Aesthetics) (Paperback) av Grant Tavinor. Av förhandsbeskrivningen ska det vara en bok som utgår från konsthistoriens estetiska värderingar och begrepp som sedan kan användas som analysmodell på dataspel. Det låter ju intressant men lite skeptisk är jag. Tidigare böcker i ämnet som haft ambitionen att analysera dataspel som konst brukar fastna i bildvärlden istället för att se dataspelet som en ny självständig konstform, men beskrivningen av boken känns lovande iallafall:


Product Description
The Art of Videogames explores how philosophy of the arts theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames.

Presents a unique philosophical approach to the art of videogaming, situating videogames in the framework of analytic philosophy of the arts
Explores how philosophical theories developed to address traditional art works can also be applied to videogames
Written for a broad audience of both philosophers and videogame enthusiasts by a philosopher who is also an avid gamer
Discusses the relationship between games and earlier artistic and entertainment media, how videogames allow for interactive fiction, the role of game narrative, and the moral status of violent events depicted in videogame worlds
Argues that videogames do indeed qualify as a new and exciting form of representational art