Introduction to Aesthetics An Analytic Approach

Name: Introduction to Aesthetics An Analytic Approach
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ISBN: 9780195113044

ISBN-10: 0195113047

ISBN-13: 9780195113044

Edition: 1997

Authors: George Dickie

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This unique and engaging text traces aesthetics from its ancient beginnings through the changes it underwent in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and the first half of the twentieth century. The first part of the book traces the history of the two organized notions of aesthetics-the theory of beauty and the imitation theory of art-and describes the transformations they went through from ancient Greek times until the 1950s. The responses of the cultural theories in the 1960s to these earlier developments are then discussed in detail. Four additional topics-intentionalistic criticism, symbolism, metaphor, and expression-are also addressed. Finally, five traditional art evaluational theories are…

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List price: $89.99
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/9/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 9.13" wide x 5.98" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Preface



An Historical Introduction to Analytic Aesthetics



Introductory Remarks



The Theory of Beauty - Plato to the 19th Century


Plato St. Thomas Aquinas - The Eighteenth Century: Taste and the Decline of Beauty - Shaftesbury - Hutcheson - Burke - Hume - Alison - Kant - Summary - The Nineteenth Century: The Birth of the Aesthetic - Schopenhauer



The Aesthetic Attitude in the 20th Century


The Aesthetic State: Psychical Distance - Aesthetic Awareness: Disinterested Attention - Aesthetic Perception: "Seeing As" - Summary and Conclusions



Metacriticism: Alternative to Aesthetic Attitude



The Theory of Art - Plato to the 19th Century


Introductory Remarks - Plato - Aristotle - The Nineteenth Century: New Directions - The Expression Theory of Art - What Is a Theory of Art?



20th Century Theories of Art, 1914 to the 1950s


Clive Bell: A 20th Century Beauty Theory of Art


Suzanne Langer: A 20th Century Imitation Theory of Art


R. G. Collingwood: A 20th Century Expressionist Theory of Art


Morris Weitz: Art as an Open Concept






A Change of Directions and New Developments


A New Direction for the Experience of Art


A New Direction for the Theory of Art



The Institutional Theory of Art


The Earlier Version - The Later Version



Four Problems in Aesthetics



Intentionalist Criticism



Symbolism in Art



Metaphor



Expression



The Evaluation of Art



20th Century Theories of Evaluation


Personal Subjectivism - Intuitionism - Emotivism - Relativism - Critical Singularism



Monroe Beardsley's Instrumentalism



Nelson Goodman's Instrumentalism



Another Kind of Instrumentalism


Summary


Epilogue