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Aesthetics : A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts

ISBN: 9780134375915 | 0134375912
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Pub. Date: 1/1/1997

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SummaryTable of Contents
For courses in Aesthetics. Unique in perspective, this collection of nearly 90 readings is designed to introduce students at any level of sophistication to the philosophical problems of aesthetics as they pertain to specific arts e.g., Painting, Photography, Music, Film and Video Art, etc. It reflects the tendency to resist thinking of art as an abstract whole and to acknowledge the diverse character of philosophical thinking about individual arts.

This anthology reverses gives special attention to popular arts as ... MORE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSvii(2)
PREFACEix
Part I PAINTING1(82)
Against Imitation, Plato
5(5)
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Form in Modern Painting, Clive Bell
10(3)
A Formal Analysis, Edmund Burke Feldman
13(4)
Modernist Painting, Clement Greenberg
17(6)
American-Type Formalism, David Carrier
23(6)
Intentional Visual Interest, Michael Baxandall
29(6)
The Limits of Likeness, Ernst Gombrich
35(5)
Reality Remade, Nelson Goodman
40(2)
Artistic Crimes, Denis Dutton
42(4)
The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art, Arthur C. Danto
46(4)
Aesthetics and the Work of Art, Arthur C. Danto
50(6)
Mimesis as Make-Believe, Kendall L. Walton
56(6)
The Origin of the Work of Art, Martin Heidegger
62(7)
The Truth in Painting, Jacques Derrida
69(5)
Why Are There No Great Women Artists?, Linda Nochlin
74(9)
Part II PHOTOGRAPHY83(34)
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Walter Benjamin
85(4)
Why Photography Is Not Art, Roger Scruton
89(5)
Transparent Pictures, Kendall L. Walton
94(9)
What's Special About Photography?, Ted Cohen
103(7)
Photographs and Contexts, Terry Barrett
110(7)
Part III FILM AND VIDEO ART117(34)
Allegory of the Cave, Plato
119(3)
The Power of Movies, Noel Carroll
122(5)
Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look, Laura Mulvey
127(7)
Audience, Actor, and Star, Stanley Cavell
134(2)
Space, Time, and Motion in Film, Alexander Sesonske
136(6)
Video: Distinctive Features of the Medium, David Antin
142(9)
Part IV THE THIRD DIMENSION: ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE151(68)
Virtual Space, Suzanne Langer
155(4)
Ornament and Crime, Adolf Loos
159(7)
Towards an Architecture, Le Corbusier
166(3)
Architecture as Decorated Shelter, Robert Venturi
169(10)
A Discussion of Architecture (with Christopher Norris), Jacques Derrida
179(9)
The Dislocation of the Architectural Self, David Goldblatt
188(10)
Nolo Contendere, Jeffrey Kipnis
198(3)
Representation and Expression in Architecture, Roger Scruton
201(6)
Nature and Art, Donald Crawford
207(12)
Part V MUSIC219(56)
The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music, Jenefer Robinson
223(10)
A Wealth of Wordless Knowledge, Diana Raffman
233(2)
Representation in Music, Roger Scruton
235(6)
Sound and Semblance, Peter Kivy
241(5)
The Recording Angel, Evan Eisenberg
246(6)
Phonography, Lee B. Brown
252(5)
Being True to the Work, Lydia Goehr
257(8)
African Music, John Miller Chernoff
265(4)
On the Concept of Music, Jerrold Levinson
269(6)
Part VI DANCE275(30)
Virtual Powers, Suzanne Langer
277(5)
What Is Going on in a Dance?, Monroe C. Beardsley
282(8)
Working and Dancing, Noel Carroll and Sally Banes
290(6)
Dances of the Secret Society, Albert Mawere Opoku
296(9)
Part VII LITERATURE305(48)
What Is Literature?, Terry Eagleton
309(5)
The Poetic Expression of Emotion, R. G. Collingwood
314(5)
Metaphor, Marcel Danesi
319(4)
Literature as a Performing Art, J. O. Urmson
323(7)
The Intention of the Author, Monroe Beardsley
330(6)
Beneath Interpretation, Richard Shusterman
336(7)
What Is an Author?, Michel Foucault
343(10)
Part VIII THEATER353(46)
Ion, Plato
355(8)
On Tragedy, Aristotle
363(3)
The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche
366(12)
On Oedipus Rex and Hamlet, Sigmund Freud
378(3)
Metatheatre, Lionel Abel
381(4)
Melodrama, Robert B. Heilman
385(4)
Performance Art, Noel Carroll
389(10)
Part IX POPULAR ARTS399(20)
The Postmodern Condition, Jean-Francois Lyotard
403(5)
Television and Aesthetics, Umberto Eco
408(5)
Simulations, Jean Baudrillard
413(4)
Plato and the Mass Media, Alexander Nehamas
417(9)
Adorno's Case Against Popular Music, Lee B. Brown
426(7)
Form and Funk, Richard Shusterman
433(7)
Why is Rock Music So Noisy?, Theodore Gracyk
440(3)
Can White People Sing the Blues?, Joel Rudinow
443(7)
Kitsch, Robert Solomon
450(5)
Jokes, Ted Cohen
455(6)
Mannequins, Sara K. Schneider
461(5)
Ventriloquism, David Goldblatt
466(6)
Pornography, Joel Feinberg
472(3)
Liberty and Its Limits, Catherine MacKinnon
475(4)
APPENDIX479(72)
Classic Sources
483(28)
Of the Standard of Taste, David Hume
483(7)
The Sublime, Edmund Burke
490(2)
Judgements About the Beautiful, Immanuel Kant
492(9)
The Philosophy of Fine Art, G. W. F. Hegel
501(5)
Art as Experience, John Dewey
506(5)
Contemporary Sources
511(40)
Categories of Art, Kendall L. Walton
511(7)
The Role of Theory in Aesthetics, Morris Weitz
518(6)
Art as a Social Institution, George Dickie
524(5)
The Hysterical Sublime, Fredric Jameson
529(3)
Can Feminist Art Be Experienced Disinterestedly?, Peg Brand
532(4)
Are Art Museums Racist?, Maurice Berger
536(6)
The War on Culture, Carole S. Vance
542(9)
CONTRIBUTORS551(8)
CREDITS AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS559

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