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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Art and the Nature of Beauty | |
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| What Is Beauty and Where Has It Gone? | |
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| "The Form of Beauty" | |
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| "Beauty's Influence" | |
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| "The Form of a Tragedy" | |
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| "Of the Standard of Taste" | |
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| "The Four Moments" | |
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| "On Beauty and Ugliness" | |
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| "Apollo and Dionysus" | |
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| What Is Art? | |
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| "The Artworld" | |
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| "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics" | |
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| "Art as a Social Institution" | |
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| "Piece: Contra Aesthetics" | |
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| "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" | |
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| "The Affecting Presence" | |
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| Art, Truth, and Reality | |
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| "Art and Appearance" | |
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| "The Decay of Lying" | |
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| "Paleolithic Aesthetics: The Psychology of Cave Art" | |
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| "Artistic Crimes: The Problem of Forgery in the Arts" | |
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| The Japanese Appreciation of Nature" | |
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| "Experimental Music" | |
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| Art as a Vehicle for Aesthetic Experience | |
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| "It's Amazing and It's Profound" | |
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| "A Quickened Sense of Life" | |
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| "Psychical Distance" | |
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| "The Dehumanization of Art" | |
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| "The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude" | |
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| Art and Ethics | |
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| "Plato and the Mass Media" | |
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| "Music" | |
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| "The Ethical Significance of Modern Art" | |
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| "Words Apart" | |
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| "Goodness Knows Nothing of Beauty" | |
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| "The New Critics" | |
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| "Art and the Moral Imperative: Analyzing Activist Art" | |
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| "Behold Now Behemoth" | |
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| Art and Our Institutions | |
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| "Arts and the State" | |
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| "Misunderstanding Obscenity" | |
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| "The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God" | |
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| "Destroying Works of Art" | |
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| "The Malignant Object: Thoughts on Public Sculpture" | |
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| "The Vietnam Veterans Memorial" | |
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| Interpreting and Evaluating Art | |
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| Creation and Inspiration | |
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| "Inspiration as Magnetism" | |
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| "Constructing a Tragedy" | |
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| "The Nature of Genius" | |
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| "On Genius" | |
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| "Letters to a Young Poet" | |
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| "Daybook: The Journal of an Artist" | |
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| "On the Mental Image" | |
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| "Zen in the Art of Archery" | |
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| Should We Focus on Form? | |
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| "Aesthetic Form" | |
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| "The Limits of Formal Analysis" | |
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| "On the Musically Beautiful" | |
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| "Balanchine's Formalism" | |
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| "Other Criteria" | |
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| "Repetition and the Series" | |
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| "Advertising--End of Story" | |
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| Art as Expressing or Arousing Emotion | |
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| "What Is Art?" | |
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| "Emotion in Response to Significant Form" | |
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| "The Symbol of Feeling" | |
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| "Expressing Emotion" | |
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| "The Concept of Artistic Expression" | |
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| "Fiction, Imagination and Emotion" | |
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| "Why Listen to Sad Music if It Makes One Feel Sad?" | |
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| "The Nature of Kitsch" | |
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| "Kitsch and Hedonism" | |
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| Intention and Interpretation | |
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| "The Intentional Fallacy" | |
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| "Computer Poems" | |
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| "Messages in Art" | |
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| "The 'Historically Authentic' Performance" | |
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| "The Colorization Controversy" | |
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| Art as the Sign of Its Time and Place | |
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| "The Ages of Art" | |
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| "Concerning the Spiritual in Art" | |
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| "Approaching the End of Art" | |
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| "Hawaiian Hula" | |
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| "Oil Painting" | |
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| "'Love Me Do': The Aesthetics of Sensuousness" | |
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| Challenges to the Tradition | |
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| Beyond Traditional Models | |
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| "The Fine Art of Rap" | |
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| "Understanding Performance Art" | |
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| "The Structuralist Activity" | |
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| "Deconstruction and the Energizer Bunny Rabbit" | |
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| "Is the Post- in Postmodernism the Post- in Postcolonial?" | |
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| "The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art" | |
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| Racism and Sexism in the Arts | |
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| "Huck at 100" | |
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| "Look, a Negro!" | |
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| "Why Are There No Great Women Artists?" | |
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| "Black Dance and Dancers and the White Public--A Prolegomenon to Problems of Definition" | |
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| "Can White People Sing the Blues?" | |
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| "The Image of Women in Film" | |
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| "Desiring Women: The Aesthetics of Japanese Erotic Art" | |
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| "Playfulness, 'World'-Traveling, and Loving Perception" | |
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| Popular Culture and Everyday Life | |
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| "Cartoons" | |
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| "On Photography" | |
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| "Are the Three Stooges Funny? Soitainly!" | |
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| "Aesthetic Qualities" | |
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| "The Pillow Book" | |
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| "By Pausing before a Kicho" | |
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| "On Elegance in Japan" | |
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| "The Domestic Aesthetic" | |
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| "Introduction to Fires in the Mirror" | |
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| Beyond the West | |
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| Aesthetics around the World | |
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| "Principles of Traditional African Art" | |
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| "African Music" | |
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| "Chinese Aesthetics" | |
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| "Old Age in the Chinese Mountain Landscape" | |
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| "Japanese Aesthetics" | |
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| "Rasa: Delight of the Reason" | |
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| "Islamic Art ... Submission to Divine Will" | |
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| "Aesthetics as Iconicity of Style" | |
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| "Aztec Aesthetics" | |
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| "The Surrealist Continent" | |
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| "Navajo Aesthetics: Beautifying the World through Art" | |
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| List of Readings by Medium | |
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| List of Cases Discussed | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |