Contemplating Art
- Author: Levinson, Jerrold
Contemplating Art
- Author: Levinson, Jerrold
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A compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics. This work contains twenty-four essays, which range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature. It is useful for philosophers, musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.
Contents
- Introduction
- Part One. Art
- 1 The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art
- 2 Artworks as Artifacts
- 3 Emotion in Response to Art
- 4 Elster on Artistic Creativity
- Part Two. Music
- 5 Sound, Gesture, Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music
- 6 Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression
- 7 Non-existent Artforms and the Case of Visual Music
- 8 Music as Narrative and Music as Drama
- 9 Film Music and Narrative Agency
- 10 Evaluating Music
- 11 Musical Thinking
- 12 Musical Chills
- Part Three. Pictures
- 13 Wollheim on Pictorial Representation
- 14 What Is Erotic Art?
- 15 Erotic Art and Pornographic Pictures
- Part Four. Interpretation
- 16 Two Notions of Interpretation
- 17 Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase?
- 18 Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies
- Part Five. Aesthetic Properties
- 19 Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility
- 20 What Are Aesthetic Properties?
- Part Six. History
- 21 The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer
- 22 Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem
- Part Seven. Other Matters
- 23 The Concept of Humour
- 24 Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life
