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Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics
- Title
- Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson.
- Author
- Levinson, Jerrold.
- Publication
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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Details
- Description
- viii, 423 p.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Note
- Includes index.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFE 06-13313
- ISBN
- 0199206171 (pbk)
- 9780199206179 (pbk)
- 019920618X (hbk)
- 9780199206186 (hbk)
- LCCN
- 2006016276
- OCLC
- 69331572
- Author
- Levinson, Jerrold.
- Title
- Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson.
- Imprint
- Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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- Other Standard Identifier
- 9780199206179 (pbk)9780199206186 (hbk)
- Research Call Number
- JFE 06-13313