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Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics
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Title
Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson.
ISBN
0199206171 (pbk)
019920618X (hbk)
Published
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description
viii, 423 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes
Includes index.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 29, 2006
Contents
The irreducible historicality of the concept of art
Artworks as artifacts
Emotion in response to art
Elster on artistic creativity
Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music
Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression
Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music
Music as narrative and music as drama
Film music and narrative agency
Evaluating music
Musical thinking
Musical chills
Wollheim on pictorial representation
What is erotic art?
Erotic art and pornographic pictures
Two notions of interpretation
Who's afraid of a paraphrase?
Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies
Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility
What are aesthetic properties?
Schopenhauer's aesthetics
Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem
The concept of humor
Intrinsic value and the notion of a life.
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