Aesthetics The Big Questions

Name: Aesthetics The Big Questions
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ISBN: 9780631205944

ISBN-10: 0631205942

ISBN-13: 9780631205944

Edition: 1998

Authors: Carolyn Korsmeyer

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This collection of essays assembles classic and contemporary texts to present both the tradition of aesthetic theory and the kinds of questions and challenges that it confronts today, both from other cultural traditions and from theoretical movements.

Book details

List price: $77.95
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/9/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 384
Size: 6.80" wide x 9.70" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English




What is Art?


Preface



The Live Creature



The Artworld



Crafty Women and the Hierarchy of the Arts



Zen and the Art of Tea



Dressing Down Dressing Up: The Philosophic Fear of Fashion




Experience and Appreciation


How Do We Encounter Art?


Preface


A Contested Term


What is "Aesthetic"?


The Aesthetic Attitude



Locating the Aesthetic



From Truth and Method



How is Art Presented to the Public?


Artistic Dropouts



Museums: From Object to Experience



The MoMA's Hot Mamas



The Vietnam Veterans Memorial




Aesthetic Evaluation: Who Decides?


Preface


Of the Standard of Taste



From Distinction



Disinterestedness and Political Art



High and Low Thinking About High and Low Art




Can We Learn from Art?


Preface


From The Republic



The Sovereignty of Good



From Love's Knowledge



Carnage and Glory, Legends and Lies



Paintings and Their Places




Tragedy, Sublimity, Horror


Why Do We Enjoy Painful Experiences in Art?


Preface


Tragedy



From the Poetics



From The Birth of Tragedy



Sublimity


Descent into the Maelstrom



From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful



From The Critique of Judgement



Horror


From The Philosophy of Horror



Realist Horror




Where is the Artist in the Work of Art?


Preface


Genius and Creativity


From Critique of Judgement



Gender and Genius



Interpreting the Artist in Society


What is an Author?



Truth and other Cultures



Musical Thinking and Thinking About Music