- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 423 p.)
- Uniform Title
- Contemplating art (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Contemplating art (Online)
- Subject
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- 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.
- LCCN
- 2006016276
- OCLC
- ssj0000086028
- Author
Levinson, Jerrold.
- Title
Contemplating art [electronic resource] : essays in aesthetics / Jerrold Levinson.
- Imprint
Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
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