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9780415166881

Philosophy of the Arts : An Introduction to Aesthetics

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    9780415166881

  • ISBN10:

    0415166888

  • Edition: 2nd
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1997-06-01
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Summary

Now in its third edition, (1st edn 1997, 2nd edn 2000) Philosophy of the Arts is distinctive edn. aesthetics textbook because it is structured largely by art-form, with a chapter each on music, poetry, architecture, painting and film - most other books in this area study the subject by theory (art as imitation/expression/significant form/etc.) or by concept (evaluation, interpretation, representation, etc.).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(3)
1 ART AND PLEASURE
4(20)
Hume and the standard of taste
4(1)
Mill and pleasure
5(6)
Kant and beauty
11(4)
Gadamer and art as play
15(3)
Art and sport
18(3)
Summary
21(3)
2 ART AND EMOTION
24(18)
Tolstoy and everyday expressivism
24(7)
Collingwood's expressivism
31(2)
Expression versus expressiveness
33(7)
Summary
40(2)
3 ART AND UNDERSTANDING
42(22)
Art and knowledge
43(3)
Aesthetic cognitivism
46(1)
Art as understanding
47(3)
Imagination and experience
50(3)
The objects of imagination
53(3)
Art and the world
56(3)
Understanding as a norm
59(1)
Art and human nature
60(2)
Summary
62(2)
4 MUSIC AND MEANING
64(23)
Music and pleasure
65(3)
Music and emotion
68(3)
Music as language
71(3)
Music and representation
74(2)
Musical vocabulary and musical grammar
76(3)
Resume
79(1)
The uniqueness of music
80(1)
Music and beauty
81(2)
Music as the exploration of sound
83(2)
Summary
85(2)
5 FROM PAINTING TO FILM
87(23)
What is representation?
88(1)
Representation and artistic value
89(3)
Art and the visual
92(4)
Visual art and the non-visual
96(4)
Film as art
100(1)
Montage versus long shot
101(3)
`Talkies'
104(2)
The `auteur'in film
106(2)
Summary
108(2)
6 POETRY AND PARAPHRASE
110(21)
Poetry and prose
110(3)
The unity of form and content
113(1)
Figures of speech
114(2)
Expressive language
116(2)
Poetic devices
118(5)
Narrative and fiction
123(4)
Literature and understanding
127(2)
Summary
129(2)
7 ARCHITECTURE AS AN ART
131(18)
The peculiarities of architecture
131(4)
Form and function
135(2)
Facade, deception, and the `Zeitgeist'
137(3)
Functionalism
140(1)
Formalism and `space'
141(3)
Architectural expression
144(1)
Architecture and understanding
145(2)
Summary
147(2)
8 THEORIES OF ART
149(29)
Defining art
149(7)
Art as an institution
156(2)
Marxism and the sociology of art
158(5)
Levi-Strauss and structuralism
163(3)
Derrida and deconstruction
166(5)
Normative theory of art
171(4)
Summary
175(3)
EXAMPLES
178(4)
Architecture
178(1)
Film and television
179(1)
Literature
179(1)
Music
180(1)
Paintings and sculpture
181(1)
Bibliography 182(3)
Index 185

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