Philosophy of the Arts

An Introduction to Aesthetics

By: Gordon Graham

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Paperback | 23 September 2005 | Edition Number 3

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288 Pages

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23.4 x 15.6 x 1.52

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Philosophy of the Arts presents a comprehensive and accessible introduction to those coming to aesthetics and the philosophy of art for the first time. The third edition is greatly enhanced by new sections on art and beauty, modern art, Aristotle and katharsis, and Hegel. Each chapter has been thoroughly revised with fresh material and extended discussions. As with previous editions, the book:

is jargon-free and will appeal to students of music, art history and literature as well as philosophy
looks at a wide range of the arts from film, painting and architecture to fiction, music and poetry
discusses a range of philosophical theories of thinkers such as Hume, Kant, Gaender, Collingwood, Derrida, Hegel and Croce
contains regular summaries and suggestions for further reading.

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'The new edition of Philosophy of the Arts provides one of the most comprehensive and pellucid introductions to aesthetics on the market.' - Andy Hamilton, Durham University Reviews of the second edition: '!clear, comprehensive yet philosophically complex.' - Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds '!accessible, wide-ranging and above all engaged.' - Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland 'Gordon Graham's book is a delight -- urbane and authoritative, accessible to all.' - Peter Lamarque, University of Hull 'An excellent introduction to philosophical aesthetics, which also makes its own distinctive and original contribution to the subject.' - Alex Neill, University of Southampton

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Preface to the Third Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Art and Pleasure	p. 3
Hume on taste and tragedy	p. 3
Collingwood on art as amusement	p. 6
Mill on higher and lower pleasures	p. 8
The nature of pleasure	p. 12
Art and Beauty	p. 14
Beauty and pleasure	p. 14
Kant on beauty	p. 16
The aesthetic attitude and the sublime	p. 19
Art and the aesthetic	p. 21
Gadamer and art as play	p. 23
Art and sport	p. 26
Summary	p. 29
Art and Emotion	p. 31
Tolstoy and everyday expressivism	p. 31
Aristotle and katharsis	p. 35
Expression and imagination	p. 37
Croce and 'intuition'	p. 38
Collingwood's expressivism	p. 41
Expression vs expressiveness	p. 44
Summary	p. 50
Art and Understanding	p. 52
Hegel, art and mind	p. 52
Art, science and knowledge	p. 54
Aesthetic cognitivism, for and against	p. 58
Imagination and experience	p. 62
The objects of imagination	p. 65
Art and the world	p. 68
Understanding as a norm	p. 70
Art and human nature	p. 73
Summary	p. 74
Music and Sonic Art	p. 76
Music and pleasure	p. 76
Music and emotion	p. 79
Music as language	p. 83
Music and representation	p. 86
Musical vocabulary and musical grammar	p. 88
Resume	p. 92
The uniqueness of music	p. 92
Music and beauty	p. 93
Music as the exploration of sound	p. 95
Sonic art and digital technology	p. 97
Summary	p. 101
The Visual Arts	p. 103
What is representation?	p. 104
Representation and artistic value	p. 105
Art and the visual	p. 108
Visual art and the non-visual	p. 113
Film as art	p. 116
Montage vs long shot	p. 118
'Talkies'	p. 120
The 'auteur' in film	p. 123
Summary	p. 126
The Literary Arts	p. 127
Poetry and prose	p. 127
The unity of form and content	p. 130
Figures of speech	p. 132
Expressive language	p. 134
Poetic devices	p. 135
Narrative and fiction	p. 140
Literature and understanding	p. 145
Summary	p. 147
The Performing Arts	p. 149
Artist, audience and performer	p. 149
Painting as the paradigm of art	p. 150
Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy	p. 154
Performance and participation	p. 157
The art of the actor	p. 160
Summary	p. 162
Architecture as an Art	p. 164
The peculiarities of architecture	p. 165
Form, function and 'the decorated shed'	p. 169
Facade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist'	p. 171
Functionalism	p. 174
Formalism and 'space'	p. 175
Resume	p. 178
Architectural expression	p. 178
Architecture and understanding	p. 180
Summary	p. 181
Modern Art	p. 183
The break with tradition	p. 183
Experimental art and the avant-garde	p. 185
The art of the readymade	p. 188
Conceptual art	p. 191
The market in art	p. 193
Art and leisure	p. 195
Summary	p. 198
The Aesthetics of Nature	p. 200
Objectivism vs subjectivism	p. 200
Art and interpretation	p. 203
The artist's intention and the 'intentional fallacy'	p. 207
The aesthetics of nature	p. 213
Summary	p. 218
Theories of Art	p. 221
Defining art	p. 221
Art as an institution	p. 228
Marxism and the sociology of art	p. 230
Levi-Strauss and structuralism	p. 235
Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism	p. 238
Normative theory of art	p. 243
Summary	p. 248
Finding examples	p. 251
Bibliography	p. 252
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