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Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics /

'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Levinson, Jerrold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford : Oxford ; New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The irreducible historicality of the concept of art
  • Artworks as artifacts
  • Emotion in response to art
  • Elster on artistic creativity
  • Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music
  • Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression
  • Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music
  • Music as narrative and music as drama
  • Film music and narrative agency
  • Evaluating music
  • Musical thinking
  • Musical chills
  • Wollheim on pictorial representation
  • What is erotic art?
  • Erotic art and pornographic pictures
  • Two notions of interpretation
  • Who's afraid of a paraphrase?
  • Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies
  • Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility
  • What are aesthetic properties?
  • Schopenhauer's aesthetics
  • Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem
  • The concept of humor
  • Intrinsic value and the notion of a life.