| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 423 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
'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 |
| Analysis |
Aufsatzsammlung |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Aesthetics.
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Arts.
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ART -- General.
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Aesthetics
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Art -- Philosophy
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Arts
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Ästhetik
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Esthetica.
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Aesthetics.
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Arts.
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Esthétique.
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Art -- Philosophie.
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Estetik.
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Konstfilosofi.
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| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191525636 |
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0191525634 |
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9780191709982 |
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0191709980 |
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1435621239 |
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9781435621237 |
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9786611148898 |
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6611148892 |
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