An edition of Philosophy of the arts
(1997)
Philosophy of the arts
an introduction to aesthetics
3rd ed.
by Graham, Gordon
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"Philosophy of the Arts, second edition is an expanded and updated new edition of this textbook. It presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. There are new sections on digital music, artistic intention and environmental aesthetics and all other chapters have been thoroughly revised."--BOOK JACKET.
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Philosophy of the arts: an introduction to aesthetics
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Philosophy of the arts: an introduction to aesthetics
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Table of Contents
Art and pleasure
Hume on taste and tragedy
Collingwood on art as amusement
Mill on higher and lower pleasures
The nature of pleasure
Art and beauty
Beauty and pleasure
Kant on beauty
The aesthetic attitude and the sublime
Art and the aesthetic
Gadamer and art as play
Art and sport
Art and emotion
Tolstoy and everyday expressivism
Aristotle and Katharsis
Expression and imagination
Croce and 'intuition'
Collingwood's expressivism
Expression versus expressiveness
Art and understanding
Hegel, art and mind
Art, science and knowledge
Aesthetic
Cognitivism, for and against
Imagination and experience
The objects of imagination
Art and the world
Understanding as a norm
Art and
Human nature
Music and sonic art
Music and pleasure
Music and emotion
Music as language
Music and representation
Musical vocabulary and musical grammar
The uniqueness of music
Music and beauty
Music as the exploration of sound
Sonic art and digital technology
The visual arts
What is representation?
Representation and artistic value - Art and the visual
Visual art and the non-visual
Film as art
Montage versus Longshot
Talkies
The 'auteur' in film
The literary arts
Poetry and prose
The unity of form and content
Figures of speech
Expressive language
Poetic devices
Narrative and fiction
Literature and understanding
The performing arts
Artist, audience, and performer
Painting as the paradigm of art
Nietzsche and the birth of tragedy
Performance and participation
The art of the actor
Architecture as an art
The peculiarities of architecture
Form and function and 'the decorated
Shed' façade, deception, and the 'Zeitgeist'
Functionalism
Formalism and 'space'
Architectural expression
Architecture and understanding
Modern art
The break with tradition
Experimental art and the avant-garde - The art of the readymade
Conceptual art
The market in art
Art and leisure
The aesthetics of nature
The objectivity of aesthetic evaluation
The artist's intention
The intentionalist
'Fallacy'
Natural beauty
Environmentalism and the aesthetics of nature
Theories of art
Defining art
Art as an institution
Sociology and the marxist theory of art - Lukacs and realism
Levy-Strauss and structuralism
Derrida and deconstruction
Hegel and Schopenhauer : normative theory of art.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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