Contemplating Art
Essays in Aesthetics
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 October 2006
- ISBN 9780199206179
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 230x155x25 mm
- Weight 650 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The twenty-four essays range over issues in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts---in particular music, film, and literature. It will appeal not only to philosophers but also to musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.
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Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The book contains twenty-four essays and is divided into seven parts. The first is about issues relating to art in general, not specific to one art form. The second and longest part of the book is about philosophical problems specific to music. The third part focuses on pictorial art, and the fourth on interpretation, in particular the interpretation of literature and literary language. In the remaining parts of the book Levinson discusses aesthetic properties, issues in historical aesthetics, humour, and intrinsic value.
These lively essays, rigorous but accessible, will appeal not only to philosophers but also to musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part One. Art
The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art
Artworks as Artifacts
Emotion in Response to Art
Elster on Artistic Creativity
Part Two. Music
Sound, Gesture, Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music
Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression
Non-existent 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
Part Three. Pictures
Wollheim on Pictorial Representation
What Is Erotic Art?
Erotic Art and Pornographic Pictures
Part Four. Interpretation
Two Notions of Interpretation
Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase?
Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies
Part Five. Aesthetic Properties
Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility
What Are Aesthetic Properties?
Part Six. History
The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer
Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem
Part Seven. Other Matters
The Concept of Humour
Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life
