Aesthetics In Perspective

by Higgins, Kathleen M.

• ISBN13: 9780534642105
• ISBN10: 0534642101
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-08-11
• Publisher: Cengage Learning

Summary

Reissued for 2003! This comprehensive anthology offers a vast collection of classic and contemporary readings in aesthetics from both western and non-western sources. It is organized topically into four parts: Art and the Nature of Beauty, Interpreting and Evaluating Art, Challenges to the Tradition and Beyond the West.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Art and the Nature of Beauty	p. 5
What Is Beauty and Where Has It Gone?	p. 7
"The Form of Beauty"	p. 11
"Beauty's Influence"	p. 18
"The Form of a Tragedy"	p. 24
"Of the Standard of Taste"	p. 31
"The Four Moments"	p. 44
"On Beauty and Ugliness"	p. 54
"Apollo and Dionysus"	p. 58
What Is Art?	p. 63
"The Artworld"	p. 68
"The Role of Theory in Aesthetics"	p. 75
"Art as a Social Institution"	p. 82
"Piece: Contra Aesthetics"	p. 88
"The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction"	p. 98
"The Affecting Presence"	p. 103
Art, Truth, and Reality	p. 111
"Art and Appearance"	p. 114
"The Decay of Lying"	p. 122
"Paleolithic Aesthetics: The Psychology of Cave Art"	p. 125
"Artistic Crimes: The Problem of Forgery in the Arts"	p. 132
The Japanese Appreciation of Nature"	p. 140
"Experimental Music"	p. 148
Art as a Vehicle for Aesthetic Experience	p. 154
"It's Amazing and It's Profound"	p. 156
"A Quickened Sense of Life"	p. 160
"Psychical Distance"	p. 164
"The Dehumanization of Art"	p. 168
"The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude"	p. 172
Art and Ethics	p. 181
"Plato and the Mass Media"	p. 184
"Music"	p. 190
"The Ethical Significance of Modern Art"	p. 195
"Words Apart"	p. 205
"Goodness Knows Nothing of Beauty"	p. 208
"The New Critics"	p. 213
"Art and the Moral Imperative: Analyzing Activist Art"	p. 222
"Behold Now Behemoth"	p. 226
Art and Our Institutions	p. 235
"Arts and the State"	p. 237
"Misunderstanding Obscenity"	p. 242
"The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God"	p. 246
"Destroying Works of Art"	p. 251
"The Malignant Object: Thoughts on Public Sculpture"	p. 259
"The Vietnam Veterans Memorial"	p. 265
Interpreting and Evaluating Art	p. 273
Creation and Inspiration	p. 275
"Inspiration as Magnetism"	p. 278
"Constructing a Tragedy"	p. 282
"The Nature of Genius"	p. 284
"On Genius"	p. 287
"Letters to a Young Poet"	p. 293
"Daybook: The Journal of an Artist"	p. 295
"On the Mental Image"	p. 302
"Zen in the Art of Archery"	p. 311
Should We Focus on Form?	p. 318
"Aesthetic Form"	p. 321
"The Limits of Formal Analysis"	p. 326
"On the Musically Beautiful"	p. 329
"Balanchine's Formalism"	p. 331
"Other Criteria"	p. 337
"Repetition and the Series"	p. 347
"Advertising--End of Story"	p. 350
Art as Expressing or Arousing Emotion	p. 359
"What Is Art?"	p. 362
"Emotion in Response to Significant Form"	p. 365
"The Symbol of Feeling"	p. 368
"Expressing Emotion"	p. 371
"The Concept of Artistic Expression"	p. 377
"Fiction, Imagination and Emotion"	p. 386
"Why Listen to Sad Music if It Makes One Feel Sad?"	p. 391
"The Nature of Kitsch"	p. 397
"Kitsch and Hedonism"	p. 399
Intention and Interpretation	p. 406
"The Intentional Fallacy"	p. 409
"Computer Poems"	p. 414
"Messages in Art"	p. 418
"The 'Historically Authentic' Performance"	p. 428
"The Colorization Controversy"	p. 435
Art as the Sign of Its Time and Place	p. 443
"The Ages of Art"	p. 446
"Concerning the Spiritual in Art"	p. 451
"Approaching the End of Art"	p. 454
"Hawaiian Hula"	p. 461
"Oil Painting"	p. 464
"'Love Me Do': The Aesthetics of Sensuousness"	p. 467
Challenges to the Tradition	p. 477
Beyond Traditional Models	p. 479
"The Fine Art of Rap"	p. 482
"Understanding Performance Art"	p. 490
"The Structuralist Activity"	p. 494
"Deconstruction and the Energizer Bunny Rabbit"	p. 497
"Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?"	p. 503
"The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art"	p. 509
Racism and Sexism in the Arts	p. 521
"Huck at 100"	p. 525
"Look, a Negro!"	p. 530
"Why Are There No Great Women Artists?"	p. 539
"Black Dance and Dancers and the White Public--A Prolegomenon to Problems of Definition"	p. 553
"Can White People Sing the Blues?"	p. 558
"The Image of Women in Film"	p. 567
"Desiring Women: The Aesthetics of Japanese Erotic Art"	p. 575
"Playfulness, 'World'-Traveling, and Loving Perception"	p. 582
Popular Culture and Everyday Life	p. 592
"Cartoons"	p. 595
"On Photography"	p. 599
"Are the Three Stooges Funny? Soitainly!"	p. 604
"Aesthetic Qualities"	p. 611
"The Pillow Book"	p. 617
"By Pausing before a Kicho"	p. 620
"On Elegance in Japan"	p. 628
"The Domestic Aesthetic"	p. 634
"Introduction to Fires in the Mirror"	p. 639
Beyond the West	p. 647
Aesthetics around the World	p. 649
"Principles of Traditional African Art"	p. 653
"African Music"	p. 662
"Chinese Aesthetics"	p. 669
"Old Age in the Chinese Mountain Landscape"	p. 672
"Japanese Aesthetics"	p. 678
"Rasa: Delight of the Reason"	p. 688
"Islamic Art ... Submission to Divine Will"	p. 704
"Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style"	p. 714
"Aztec Aesthetics"	p. 719
"The Surrealist Continent"	p. 729
"Navajo Aesthetics: Beautifying the World through Art"	p. 736
List of Readings by Medium	p. 745
List of Cases Discussed	p. 750
Glossary	p. 753
Bibliography	p. 766
Index	p. 788
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