Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson.
By: Levinson, Jerrold
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Publisher: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006Description: viii, 423 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0199206171 (pbk.); 9780199206179 (pbk.); 019920618X (hbk); 9780199206186 (hbk).Subject(s): Aesthetics | Art -- Philosophy | ArtsDDC classification: 701/.17 | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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.
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