Art and Its Significance An Anthology of Aesthetic Theory, Third Edition

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Intro

Art and Its Significance

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I. Historical Background

Plato

Republic II, III, X

Ion (complete)

Symposium

Aristotle

Poetics

Nicomachean Ethics

David Hume

Of the Standard of Taste (complete)

Immanuel Kant

Critique of Judgment

G. W. F. Hegel

Philosophy of Fine Art (Introduction)

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Birth of Tragedy

Attempt at a Self-Criticism (complete)

Leo Tolstoy

What is Art?

II. Recent Systematic Theories

Clive Bell

Art

R.G. Collingwood

Principles of Art John Dewey

Art as Experience

Susanne Langer

Feeling and Form

Nelson Goodman

When Is Art?

Languages of Art

Martin Heidegger

The Origin of the Work of Art

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Eye and Mind

Stephen David Ross

A Theory of Art: Inexhaustibility by Contrast

III. Interpretation and Criticism

Stephen Pepper

The Work of Art

E. D. Hirsch, Jr

Validity in Interpretation

Hans-Georg Gadamer

Truth and Method

Paul Ricoeur

The Problem of Double Meaning as Hermeneutic Problem Solving and as Semantic Problem

Jacques Derrida

The Truth in Painting Letter to Peter Eisenman

Michael Foucault

The Order of Things (Preface, Las Meninas)

IV. Discussions

Edward Bullough

'Psychical Distance' as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle

Arthur Danto

The Artworld

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin

Discourse in the Novel

Psychology and Art: Freud, Jung, Vygotsky

Sigmund Freud

The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming

Carl Gustav Jung

Psychology and Literature

Lev Vygotsky

The Psychology of Art

Marxism and the Frankfurt School

Walter Benjamin The Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility

Theodor W. Adorno

On the Fetish-Character in Music and the Regression of Listening

Herbert Marcuse

The Aesthetic Dimension

Postmodernism

Jean-Francois Lyotard

What Is Postmodernism?

Feminist Theory

Heide Gottner-Abendroth

Nine Principles of a Matriarchal Aesthetic

Luce Irigaray

Any Theory of the ""Subject"" Has Always Been Appropriated by the ""Masculine

Craig Owens

The Discourse of Others: Feminists and Postmodernism

Multicultural Theory

V. Y. Mudimbe

The Invention of Africa Trinh T. Minh-ha

Woman, Native, Other

James Clifford

On Collecting Art and Culture

Tony Fry and Anne-Marie Willis

Aboriginal Art: Symptom or Success?

Artist's Declarations

F. T. Marinetti

Futurist Painting: Technical Manifesto

Umberto Boccioni

Technical Manifesto of Futurist Sculpture

Kasimir Malevich

Suprematism

Wassily Kandinsky

Concrete Art

Piet Mondrian

Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art

Sol LeWitt

Sentences on Conceptual Art