Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics

by Graham; Gordon

• ISBN13: 9780415349789
• ISBN10: 0415349788
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced with new chapters on art and beauty, the performing arts and modern art, and there are new sections on Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche. The remaining chapters have been thoroughly revised and extended. This new edition:* is jargon-free and will appeal to students of music, art history, literature and theatre studies as well as philosophy* looks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to literature, music, dance and drama* discusses the philosophical theories of major thinkers including Aristotle, Hume, Hegel, Nietzsche, Croce, Collingwood, Gadamer and Derrida* includes regular summaries and suggestions for further reading.

Author Biography

Gordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary

Table of Contents

Preface to the Third Edition	xi
Introduction	1	(182)
1 ART AND PLEASURE	3	(11)
Hume on taste and tragedy	3	(3)
Collingwood on art as amusement	6	(2)
Mill on higher and lower pleasures	8	(4)
The nature of pleasure	12	(2)
2 ART AND BEAUTY	14	(17)
Beauty and pleasure	14	(2)
Kant on beauty	16	(3)
The aesthetic attitude and the sublime	19	(2)
Art and the aesthetic	21	(2)
Gadamer and art as play	23	(3)
Art and sport	26	(3)
Summary	29	(2)
3 ART AND EMOTION	31	(21)
Tolstoy and everyday expressivism	31	(4)
Aristotle and katharsis	35	(2)
Expression and imagination	37	(1)
Croce and 'intuition'	38	(3)
Collingwood's expressivism	41	(3)
Expression vs expressiveness	44	(6)
Summary	50	(2)
4 ART AND UNDERSTANDING	52	(24)
Hegel, art and mind	52	(2)
Art, science and knowledge	54	(4)
Aesthetic cognitivism, for and against	58	(4)
Imagination and experience	62	(3)
The objects of imagination	65	(3)
Art and the world	68	(2)
Understanding as a norm	70	(3)
Art and human nature	73	(1)
Summary	74	(2)
5 MUSIC AND SONIC ART	76	(27)
Music and pleasure	76	(3)
Music and emotion	79	(4)
Music as language	83	(3)
Music and representation	86	(2)
Musical vocabulary and musical grammar	88	(4)
Resume	92	(1)
The uniqueness of music	92	(1)
Music and beauty	93	(2)
Music as the exploration of sound	95	(2)
Sonic art and digital technology	97	(4)
Summary	101	(2)
6 THE VISUAL ARTS	103	(24)
What is representation?	104	(1)
Representation and artistic value	105	(3)
Art and the visual	108	(5)
Visual art and the non-visual	113	(3)
Film as art	116	(2)
Montage vs long shot	118	(2)
'Talkies'	120	(3)
The 'auteur' in film	123	(3)
Summary	126	(1)
7 THE LITERARY ARTS	127	(22)
Poetry and prose	127	(3)
The unity of form and content	130	(2)
Figures of speech	132	(2)
Expressive language	134	(1)
Poetic devices	135	(5)
Narrative and fiction	140	(5)
Literature and understanding	145	(2)
Summary	147	(2)
8 THE PERFORMING ARTS	149	(15)
Artist, audience and performer	149	(1)
Painting as the paradigm of art	150	(4)
Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy	154	(3)
Performance and participation	157	(3)
The art of the actor	160	(2)
Summary	162	(2)
9 ARCHITECTURE AS AN ART	164	(19)
The peculiarities of architecture	165	(4)
Form, function and 'the decorated shed'	169	(2)
Facade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist'	171	(3)
Functionalism	174	(1)
Formalism and 'space'	175	(3)
Résumé	178	(1)
Architectural expression	178	(2)
Architecture and understanding	180	(1)
Summary	181	(2)
10 MODERN ART	183	(17)
The break with tradition	183	(2)
Experimental art and the avant-garde	185	(3)
The art of the readymade	188	(3)
Conceptual art	191	(2)
The market in art	193	(2)
Art and leisure	195	(3)
Summary	198	(2)
11 THE AESTHETICS OF NATURE	200	(21)
Objectivism vs subjectivism	200	(3)
Art and interpretation	203	(4)
The artist's intention and the 'intentional fallacy'	207	(6)
The aesthetics of nature	213	(5)
Summary	218	(3)
12 THEORIES OF ART	221	(30)
Defining art	221	(7)
Art as an institution	228	(2)
Marxism and the sociology of art	230	(5)
Levi-Strauss and structuralism	235	(3)
Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism	238	(5)
Normative theory of art	243	(5)
Summary	248	(3)
Finding examples	251	(1)
Bibliography	252	(5)
Index	257