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Aesthetics / edited by Susan L. Feagin and Patrick Maynard.

Contributor(s): Feagin, Susan L, 1948- [editor ] | Maynard, Patrick, 1939- [editor ].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Oxford readers: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [1997]Copyright date: ©1997Description: vii, 418 pages ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0192892754 (paperback); 9780192892751 (paperback).Subject(s): Aesthetics | Art and philosophy | Art -- PhilosophyDDC classification: 111.85
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.
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Can we ever claim to understand a work of art or be objective about it? Why have cultures thought it important to separate out a group of objects and call them art? What does aesthetics contribute to our understanding of the natural landscape? Are the concepts of art and the aesthetic elitist?
Addressing these and other issues in aesthetics, this important new Oxford Reader includes articles by authors ranging from Aristotle and Xie-He to Jun'ichiro Tanizaki, Michael Baxandall, and Susan Sontag. It focuses on why art and a variety of aesthetics matter to us, and on how perceivers participate in and contribute to the experience of appreciating a work of art. With its multicultural and multidisciplinary scope, this volume shows how anthropology, art history, Chinese theories of painting, and other perspectives both enrich and provide alternatives to classic philosophical accounts of art and the aesthetic.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 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.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • 1 What is distinctive about the aesthetic?
  • 2 Why is it important to recognize objects as art?
  • 3 Art as a vehicle for expression, creativity and freedom
  • 4 Is it ever possible to understand a work of art?
  • 5 Why is it important to respond emotionally to art?
  • 6 Are evaluations of art objective?
  • Notes
  • Further Reading
  • Biographical Details
  • Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Susan L. Feagin is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, specializing in aesthetics. She has been on the board of trustees for the American Society for Aesthetics, and president of the Central States Philosophical Association in 1996. Contributor to the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, The British Journal of Aesthetics, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophical Studies, and The American Philosophical Quarterly.Patrick Maynard is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Ontario, where he teaches aesthetics and the history of philosophy at all levels. He is guest editor for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. Contributor to the TLS, LRB, and Current Anthropology.

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