Levinson, Jerrold.
Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson. - Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006. - viii, 423 p. ; 24 cm. NFIC
Includes index.
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.
0199206171 (pbk.) 9780199206179 (pbk.) 019920618X (hbk) 9780199206186 (hbk)
2006016276
Aesthetics.
Art--Philosophy.
Arts.
BH39 / .L492 2006
701/.17
Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson. - Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006. - viii, 423 p. ; 24 cm. NFIC
Includes index.
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.
0199206171 (pbk.) 9780199206179 (pbk.) 019920618X (hbk) 9780199206186 (hbk)
2006016276
Aesthetics.
Art--Philosophy.
Arts.
BH39 / .L492 2006
701/.17