Previous ed.: 2000.
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 vs 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
Résumé
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 vs long shot
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, function and 'the decorated shed'
Façade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist'
Functionalism
Formalism and 'space'
Résumé
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
Objectivism vs subjectivism
The artist's intention and the 'intentional fallacy'
The aesthetics of nature
Theories of art
Defining art
Art as an institution
Marxism and the sociology of art
Lévi-Strauss and structuralism
Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism
Normative theory of art.
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Philosophy of the arts : an introduction to aesthetics by Gordon Graham. ISBN 0415349796. Published by Routledge in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
