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Title The Routledge companion to aesthetics / edited by Berys Gaut and Dominic Lopes
Published London : Routledge, 2000
Table of Contents
 List of figuresix
 Notes on contributorsx
 Prefacexvi
Part 1History of aesthetics1
 1Plato / Christopher Janaway3
 2Aristotle / Nickolas Pappas15
 3Medieval aesthetics 1924- / Joseph Margolis27
 4Empiricism: Hutcheson and Hume / James Shelley37
 5Kant / Donald W. Crawford51
 6Hegel / Michael Inwood65
 7Nietzsche / Ruben Berrios, Aaron Ridley75
 8Formalism / Noel Carroll87
 9Pragmatism: Dewey / Richard Shusterman97
 10Heidegger / Simon Glendinning107
 11Expressivism: Croce and Collingwood / Gordon Graham119
 12Sibley / Colin Lyas131
 13Foucault / Robert Wicks143
 14Postmodernism: Barthes and Derrida / David Novitz155
Part 2Aesthetic theory167
 15Definitions of art / Stephen Davies169
 16The aesthetic / Alan Goldman181
 17Taste / Carolyn Korsmeyer193
 18Aesthetic universals / Denis Dutton203
 19Value of art / Matthew Kieran215
 20Beauty / Jennifer Anne McMahon227
 21Interpretation / Robert Stecker239
 22Imagination and make-believe / Gregory Currie253
 23Fiction / David Davies263
 24Narrative / Paisley Livingston275
 25Metaphor / Garry L. Hagberg285
 26Pictorial representation / Mark Rollins297
Part 3Issues and challenges313
 27Criticism / Roger Seamon315
 28Art and knowledge / Eileen John329
 29Art and ethics / Berys Gaut341
 30Art, expression, and emotion / Derek Matravers353
 31Tragedy / Alex Neill363
 32Humor / Ted Cohen375
 33Authenticity in performance / James O. Young383
 34Fakes and forgeries / Nan Stalnaker395
 35High art versus low art / John A. Fisher409
 36Environmental aesthetics / Allen Carlson423
 37Feminist aesthetics / Sarah Worth437
Part 4The individual arts447
 38Literature / Peter Lamarque449
 39Film / Murray Smith463
 40Photography / Patrick Maynard477
 41Painting / Dominic McIver Lopes491
 42Sculpture / Curtis L. Carter, Carter, Curtis L.503
 43Architecture / Edward Winters519
 44Music / Mark DeBellis531
 45Dance / Graham McFee545
 46Theater / James R. Hamilton557
 Index569
 Figures 
 26.1Picasso's Rite of Spring shows how shape information is contained in silhouettes 
 26.2The organization of stored shape descriptions for bipeds and quadrupeds 
 26.3Birds and Schema / Van de Passe 
 26.4Size constancy as a function of the number of textural elements covered by an object where it touches the ground 
 41.1The duck-rabbit illustration 
 44.1Short passage from Handel's Messiah 

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Description 600 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Bibliography
Subject Aesthetics.
Author Gaut, Berys Nigel.
Lopes, Dominic.
ISBN 0415207371
Other Titles Companion to aesthetics