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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Introduction | |
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Art and Pleasure | |
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Hume on taste and tragedy | |
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Collingwood on art as amusement | |
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Mill on higher and lower pleasures | |
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The nature of pleasure | |
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Art and Beauty | |
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Beauty and pleasure | |
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Kant on beauty | |
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The aesthetic attitude and the sublime | |
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Art and the aesthetic | |
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Gadamer and art as play | |
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Art and sport | |
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Summary | |
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Art and Emotion | |
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Tolstoy and everyday expressivism | |
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Aristotle and katharsis | |
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Expression and imagination | |
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Croce and 'intuition' | |
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Collingwood's expressivism | |
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Expression vs expressiveness | |
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Summary | |
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Art and Understanding | |
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Hegel, art and mind | |
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Art, science and knowledge | |
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Aesthetic cognitivism, for and against | |
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Imagination and experience | |
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The objects of imagination | |
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Art and the world | |
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Understanding as a norm | |
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Art and human nature | |
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Summary | |
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Music and Sonic Art | |
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Music and pleasure | |
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Music and emotion | |
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Music as language | |
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Music and representation | |
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Musical vocabulary and musical grammar | |
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Resume | |
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The uniqueness of music | |
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Music and beauty | |
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Music as the exploration of sound | |
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Sonic art and digital technology | |
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Summary | |
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The Visual Arts | |
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What is representation? | |
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Representation and artistic value | |
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Art and the visual | |
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Visual art and the non-visual | |
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Film as art | |
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Montage vs long shot | |
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'Talkies' | |
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The 'auteur' in film | |
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Summary | |
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The Literary Arts | |
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Poetry and prose | |
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The unity of form and content | |
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Figures of speech | |
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Expressive language | |
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Poetic devices | |
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Narrative and fiction | |
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Literature and understanding | |
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Summary | |
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The Performing Arts | |
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Artist, audience and performer | |
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Painting as the paradigm of art | |
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Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy | |
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Performance and participation | |
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The art of the actor | |
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Summary | |
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Architecture as an Art | |
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The peculiarities of architecture | |
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Form, function and 'the decorated shed' | |
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Facade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist' | |
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Functionalism | |
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Formalism and 'space' | |
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Resume | |
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Architectural expression | |
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Architecture and understanding | |
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Summary | |
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Modern Art | |
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The break with tradition | |
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Experimental art and the avant-garde | |
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The art of the readymade | |
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Conceptual art | |
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The market in art | |
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Art and leisure | |
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Summary | |
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The Aesthetics of Nature | |
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Objectivism vs subjectivism | |
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Art and interpretation | |
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The artist's intention and the 'intentional fallacy' | |
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The aesthetics of nature | |
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Summary | |
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Theories of Art | |
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Defining art | |
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Art as an institution | |
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Marxism and the sociology of art | |
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Levi-Strauss and structuralism | |
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Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism | |
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Normative theory of art | |
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Summary | |
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Finding examples | |
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Bibliography | |