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Aesthetics /

Contributor(s): Feagin, Susan L, 1948- | Maynard, Patrick, 1939-.
Series: Oxford readers: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997 (2010)Description: vii, 418 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0192892754 (pbk.); 9780192892751:; 9780192892751 (pbk.).Subject(s): Beauty | Art -- Philosophy | AestheticsDDC classification: 701.17
Contents:
The aesthetic hypothesis / Clive Bell -- Anything viewed / Paul Ziff -- Aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment / Allen Carlson -- The new aesthetics / Oscar Wilde -- The aesthetic in experience / John Dewey -- The tea-room / Kakuzo Okakura -- In praise of shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki -- The Dionysian / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Art and the ethnological artifact / Joshua C. Taylor -- Women, art and power / Linda Nochlin -- The surfaces of reality / Michael Roemer -- The modern system of the arts / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- The fine arts reduced to a single principle / Abbe Batteux -- The arts and fine arts / Jean Le Rond D'Alembert -- Art as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- On the aesthetic and economic value of art / Mark Sagoff -- Women artists and the institutions of art / Whitney Chadwick -- Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock -- The music of our lives / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- How museums define other cultures / Ivan Karp --̂The metaphysical hypothesis / Clive Bell -- What is poetry? / John Stuart Mill -- What is art? / Leo Tolstoy -- Art as expression / John Hospers -- Diderot on the artist and society / Meyer Schapiro -- Art and genius / Immanuel Kant -- Art, nature, freedom / G. W. F. Hegel -- Sources of Gola artistry / Warren L. D'Azevedo -- Six canons of painting / Xie-He (Hsieh Ho) -- Painting bamboo / Su Shih -- Genius / Su Shih -- Spiritual excellence / Wang Ch'inch'en -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Art and craft / R. G. Collingwood -- The artist's intention / Monroe Beardsley -- Authenticity in musical performance / Stephen Davies -- Criticism and retrieval / Richard Wollheim -- Truth and other cultures / Michael Baxandall -- Against interpretation / Susan Sontag -- Deep interpretation / Arthur C. Danto -- Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman -- From work to text / Roland Barthes -- Aesthetic theory and the experience of art / R. K. Elliott --̂Make-believe and the arts / Kendall L. Walton -- The emotions proper to tragedy / Aristotle -- Emotions and music / Aristotle -- Luck and the tragic emotions / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The pleasures of tragedy / Susan L. Feagin -- Jokes / Ted Cohen -- The sublime : of delight and pleasure / Edmund Burke -- Music and negative emotion / Jerrold Levinson -- Criticism as appraisal / Curt Ducasse -- On perfection and coherence in art / Meyer Schapiro -- Of the standard of tast / David Hume -- Critical communication / Arnold Isenberg -- Lessons of the past / John Berger -- The postcolonial and the aesthetic / Kwame Anthony Appiah.
Summary: Including articles by writers ranging from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, this reader examines such questions as why cultures have thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them 'art', and whether we can ever understand an artwork.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [390]-394) and index.

The aesthetic hypothesis / Clive Bell -- Anything viewed / Paul Ziff -- Aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment / Allen Carlson -- The new aesthetics / Oscar Wilde -- The aesthetic in experience / John Dewey -- The tea-room / Kakuzo Okakura -- In praise of shadows / Junichiro Tanizaki -- The Dionysian / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Art and the ethnological artifact / Joshua C. Taylor -- Women, art and power / Linda Nochlin -- The surfaces of reality / Michael Roemer -- The modern system of the arts / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- The fine arts reduced to a single principle / Abbe Batteux -- The arts and fine arts / Jean Le Rond D'Alembert -- Art as a cultural system / Clifford Geertz -- On the aesthetic and economic value of art / Mark Sagoff -- Women artists and the institutions of art / Whitney Chadwick -- Modernity and the spaces of femininity / Griselda Pollock -- The music of our lives / Kathleen Marie Higgins -- How museums define other cultures / Ivan Karp --̂The metaphysical hypothesis / Clive Bell -- What is poetry? / John Stuart Mill -- What is art? / Leo Tolstoy -- Art as expression / John Hospers -- Diderot on the artist and society / Meyer Schapiro -- Art and genius / Immanuel Kant -- Art, nature, freedom / G. W. F. Hegel -- Sources of Gola artistry / Warren L. D'Azevedo -- Six canons of painting / Xie-He (Hsieh Ho) -- Painting bamboo / Su Shih -- Genius / Su Shih -- Spiritual excellence / Wang Ch'inch'en -- The philosophy of composition / Edgar Allan Poe -- Art and craft / R. G. Collingwood -- The artist's intention / Monroe Beardsley -- Authenticity in musical performance / Stephen Davies -- Criticism and retrieval / Richard Wollheim -- Truth and other cultures / Michael Baxandall -- Against interpretation / Susan Sontag -- Deep interpretation / Arthur C. Danto -- Art and authenticity / Nelson Goodman -- From work to text / Roland Barthes -- Aesthetic theory and the experience of art / R. K. Elliott --̂Make-believe and the arts / Kendall L. Walton -- The emotions proper to tragedy / Aristotle -- Emotions and music / Aristotle -- Luck and the tragic emotions / Martha C. Nussbaum -- The pleasures of tragedy / Susan L. Feagin -- Jokes / Ted Cohen -- The sublime : of delight and pleasure / Edmund Burke -- Music and negative emotion / Jerrold Levinson -- Criticism as appraisal / Curt Ducasse -- On perfection and coherence in art / Meyer Schapiro -- Of the standard of tast / David Hume -- Critical communication / Arnold Isenberg -- Lessons of the past / John Berger -- The postcolonial and the aesthetic / Kwame Anthony Appiah.

Including articles by writers ranging from Aristotle to Susan Sontag, this reader examines such questions as why cultures have thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them 'art', and whether we can ever understand an artwork.

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