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Philosophy of the Visual Arts

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ISBN-10: 0195059751

ISBN-13: 9780195059755

Edition: 1992

Authors: Philip A. Alperson

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This is the first anthology on aesthetics to be specifically oriented to the visual arts. It includes selections from a wide range of sources and deals with painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and dance.
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Book details

List price: $92.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/9/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 640
Size: 6.75" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

The Idea of the Visual Arts
The Aesthetic Attitude
On the Nature of the Visual Arts
The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude
Intuition, Technique and the Classification of the Arts
On the Limits of Painting and Poetry
Painting and the Pictorial Arts: Form and the Representation of the Visible World
A Copy Theory of Representation
Truth and the Stereotype: An Illusion Theory of Representation
Reality Remade: A Denotation Theory of Representation
Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things
Caricature
The Aesthetic Hypothesis: Significant Form and Aesthetic: Emotion
Painting and the Pictorial Arts: Wider Contexts
Concerning the Spiritual in Art
Symbolism
Psychology
Art and Thought
Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood
The Forms of Things Unknown
Psychology and Art Today: A Summary and Critique
Religion
The Religious Significance of Painting
The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion
Politics and Society
The Naked and the Nude
Ways of Seeing Women
Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Linda Nochlin
Arts of the Camera
The Ontology of the Photographic Image
In Plato's Cave
Photography, Vision, and Representation
A Realist Theory of Film
Film as Art
Basic Film Aesthetics
Sculpture, Architecture, and Hand-Crafted Objects
The Discovery of Space
The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God
Form and Function
How Buildings Mean
A Case for Figurative Architecture
Art and Craft
The Aesthetic of the Antique
Use and Contemplation
Modern Developments
Aesthetics and the Contemporary Arts
The Artworld
What is Art?: An Institutional Analysis
The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art
Piece: Contra Aesthetics
Art History and Museums
The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline
Style and Significance in Art History and Art Criticism
Categories of Art
Art and Authenticity
The New Art History: A Symposium
What is ""New"" About the ""New Art History""? Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann
Cultural Institutions and the Topography of Art History
Old, New and Not So New Art History
Showing and Saving, Looking and Learning: An Outsider's View of Art Museums
Exhibits and Artworks
On the Borders of the Visual Arts
Why Philosophy Neglects the Dance
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