A Theory of Art

Contents

• Prologue. The Function and value of art
• Part I.Aesthetics: the end of artworks
• 1. Aesthetics I. The nature of art
• 2. Aesthetics II. The uses of art
• 3. Aesthetics III. The genealogy of modern European art music
• Part II.Poetics and hermeneutics: the contents and interpretation of artworks
• 4. Poetics I. Diegesis and mimesis: the poetic modes and the matter of artistic presentation
• 5. Poetics II. Narrative and lyric: the poetic forms and the object of artistic presentation
• 6. Hermenetics. Interpretation and its validity
• Epilogue. The power of taste
• Notes