Title: The philosophy of art : readings ancient and modern
Abstract:Table of Contents ONE: ARTISTS: CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY.
Plato: Ion (Woodruff translation).
Wordsworth: Preface to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.
Nietzsche: Attempt at a Self-Criticism, and exten...Table of Contents ONE: ARTISTS: CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY.
Plato: Ion (Woodruff translation).
Wordsworth: Preface to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.
Nietzsche: Attempt at a Self-Criticism, and extensive excerpts from sections 1-15 of Birth
of Tragedy (Kaufmann translation).
Freud: Creative Writers and Day-dreaming (Grant Duff translation).
Eliot: Tradition and the Individual Talent.
Beardsley: On the Creation of Art.
John Dewey: Having an Experience.
Hans-Georg Gadamer: The Play of Art, from Relevance of the Beautiful.
Christine Battersby: The Male Gift and The Great +I AM', Chapters 4 and 5 of Gender and Genius.
TWO: ARTWORKS.
Form and Content.
Clive Bell: The Hypothesis, from Art.
Clement Greenberg: Modernist Painting.
R. G. Collingwood: Excerpts from the Introduction and Book I, and Not Art, of Principles of Art.
R. K. Elliott: Aesthetic Theory and the Experience of Art.
The Project of Definition
Morris Weitz: The Role of Theory in Aesthetics.
Maurice Mandelbaum: Family Resemblances and Generalizations Concerning the Arts.
Arthur C. Danto: The Artworld.
George Dickie: The New Institutional Theory of Art.
Jerrold Levinson: Defining Art Historically.
Richard Eldridge: Form and Content: An Theory of Art.
THREE: AUDIENCES.
The Logic of Taste.
David Hume: Of the Standard of Taste.
Immanuel Kant: Analytic of the Beautiful.
Edward Bullough, Psychical Distance.
Frank Sibley, Aesthetic Concepts.
Kendall Walton: Categories of Art.
Stanley Cavell: Aesthetic Judgment and a Philosophical Claim.
Arnold Isenberg: Critical Communication.
Intention and Interpretation.
Dewey: Having an Experience, from Art as Experience.
Wimsatt & Beardsley: The Fallacy.
Roland Barthes: The Death of the Author, from Image-Music-Text.
E. D. Hirsch: In Defense of the Author (Chapter 1 of Validity in Interpretation).
Richard Wollheim: Criticism as Retrieval.
Michael Baxandall: Intentional Visual Interest from Chapter 2 of Patterns of Intention.
Jenefer Robinson: Style and Personality in the Literary Work.
Beardsley: The Testability of an Interpretation.
Stanley Fish: Is There a Text in this Class?
Susan Sontag: Against Interpretation.
FOUR: ART: PURPOSES AND PERILS.
Plato: Republic, Excerpts from Book III (386-398b), and Book X (595-608b) (Lee translation).
Aristotle: Poetics, Chapters 1-15, first half of 17, 23-26 (Halliwell translation).
Leo Tolstoy: Excerpts from What is Art?
John Dewey: and Civilization, from Art as Experience.
Theodor Adorno: On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening, from Culture Industry.
Monroe C. Beardsley: The Arts in the Life of Man, from Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism.
Linda Nochlin: Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?Read More
Publication Year: 1995
Publication Date: 1995-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
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