Philosophy of the Arts: An Introduction to Aesthetics

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Psychology Press, 2000 - 224 strani
This work is an expanded and updated new edition of this textbook. It presents a comprehensive introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. Two entirely new sections are presented on digital music and environmental aesthetics and all other chapters have been thoroughly revised and brought up-to-date. As with the first edition, the book: is written in a wholly untechnical style and appeals to students of music, art history and literature as well as philosophy; looks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to fiction, music and poetry; discusses a range of philosophical theories of thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Habermas, Collingwood, Derrida, Hegel and Schopenhauer; contains regular summaries and suggestions for further reading; and now includes two new sections on digital music and environmental aesthetics.

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ART AND PLEASURE
4
Mill and pleasure
6
Kant and beauty
12
Gadamer and art as play
15
Art and sport
19
Summary
22
ART AND EMOTION
24
Croce and intuition
30
Montage versus long shot
107
Talkies
110
The auteur in film
112
Summary
115
POETRY AND PARAPHRASE
116
The unity of form and content
119
Figures of speech
120
Expressive language
122

Collingwoods expressivism
33
Expression versus expressiveness
36
Summary
42
ART AND UNDERSTANDING
44
Art and knowledge
45
Aesthetic cognitivism
48
Art as understanding
49
Imagination and experience
52
The objects of imagination
56
Art and the world
58
Understanding as a norm
61
Art and human nature
63
Summary
64
MUSIC AND MEANING
66
Music and pleasure
67
Music and emotion
70
Music as language
73
Music and representation
76
Musical vocabulary and musical grammar
78
Résumé
81
The uniqueness of music
82
Music and beauty
83
Music as the exploration of sound
85
The implications of digital technology
87
Summary
91
FROM PAINTING TO FILM
93
What is representation?
94
Representation and artistic value
95
Art and the visual
98
Visual art and the nonvisual
102
Film as art
106
Poetic devices
124
Narrative and fiction
129
Literature and understanding
133
Summary
135
ARCHITECTURE AS AN ART
137
Form and function
141
Fagade deception and the Zeitgeist
143
Functionalism
146
Formalism and space
148
Architectural expression
150
Architecture and understanding
151
Summary
153
EVALUATION AND THE AESTHETICS OF NATURE
155
Art and interpretation
159
The artists intention and the intentional fallacy
163
The aesthetics of nature
168
Summary
174
THEORIES OF ART
176
Art as an institution
183
Marxism and the sociology of art
185
LéviStrauss and structuralism
191
Derrida deconstruction and postmodernism
193
Normative theory of art
199
Summary
203
EXAMPLES
206
Film and television
207
Music
208
Paintings and sculpture
209
Bibliography
211
Index
215
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GORDON GRAHAM is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.

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