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abjection: and disgust 143–4, 147–50; and eroticism 144, 151; and horror 150–1
aesthetic: concept of 7, 27–9, 37–40; and pleasure 28, 41, 45, 49, 89–92; venues for 28
aesthetic attitude theories 48–51, 56–7
aesthetic perception: feminist critiques of 51–7
Agosin, Marjorie 169 n. 37
AIDS quilt 120
Allen, Prudence 156 n. 4
amateurism 62–3, 65, 68–9, 74; and subjectivity 81
Amer, Ghada 169 n. 36
Anderson, Laurie 126
Anderson, Richard L. 156 n. 8, 157 n. 17
anti-art 113–14, 116, 122, 130
Antoni, Janine 101
art: classical theories of 15–17, 19–20; definitions of 104–7, 109–13, 116; expression theories of 31–4, 110, 112; feminism and 107–8, 109, 114, 117–18; institutional theory of 114–16; nonstandard/craft materials 120–2; and teamwork 23–5, 120
artist: concept of 10, 11, 14–15, 25–9, 34
artistic creativity: and senses 87–8
arts: Renaissance categorization of 26–7
arts and crafts movements 33
astronomy 20
Augsberg, Tanya 169 n. 45
Balzac, Honoré de 31
Banes, Sally 163 n. 5
Bar On, Bat-Ami 156 n. 4
Battersby, Christine 30–1, 136, 158 nn. 25, 26 and 28, 164 n. 43, 170 n. 7, 171 n. 12
Baumgarten, Alexander 159 n. 1
beauty 7, 45; and aesthetic, concept of 37–8; Burke on 41–3, 47; erotic 41, 42; Kant on 47; and moral value 27–9, 44; norms of 146; and taste 40–1; and utility 27
Beauvoir, Simone de 157 n. 14, 159 n. 12
Berger, John 162 n. 36
Bindman, David 160 n. 19
Bloom, Lisa 169 n. 40
Bolt, Barb 162 n. 39
Bordo, Susan 155 n. 2, 169 n. 38
Bourdieu, Pierre 161 n. 23
Brand, Peg Zeglin 159 n. 12, 167 n. 7, 168 n. 24, 169 n. 45
Brown, Wendy 157 n. 15
Bryson, Norman 162 n. 36
Budd, Malcolm 158 n. 30
Burke, Edmund 41–3, 133; on beauty 41–3, 47; on sublime 42, 43, 47, 134, 136–7, 138
Campbell, Sue 68, 163 n. 23, 167 n. 13
Carrier, David 168 n. 29
Carroll, Noël 167 n. 8, 168 n. 24, 171 n. 14
carving 26
casting 26
ceramics 120
Chadwick, Whitney 164 nn. 34 and 35
Citron, Marcia J. 65–6, 163 nn. 4 and 17
Cixous, Hélène 141
Classen, Constance 165 n. 1
Clément, Catherine 173 n. 42
Cohen, Ted 160 n. 14
Coldwell, Maria V. 164 n. 25
comedy 20
community arts 33
Copjec, Joan 172 n. 21
copyright 72
Cox, Renée 124
crafts 2, 6, 16, 25, 27–8; and expression theories 32–3; and feminist art 120–1; and fine art 33–4, 108, 110, 111, 120
creativity: and genius 29–31; and masculine–feminine duality 19–22
Creed, Barbara 173 n. 47
Croce, Benedetto 158 n. 30
Cunningham, Suzanne 170 n. 4
Curran, Angela 157 n. 12
Davies, Stephen 157 n. 17, 158 n. 30, 168 n. 24
De Kooning, Elaine 82
Delaunay, Sonia 82
Derrida, Jacques 172 n. 22
Devereaux, Mary 162 n. 37, 165 n. 47, 168 n. 33
DeWitt, Simeon 164 n. 39
Dickie, George 114–15, 165 n. 7
digital arts 108
Diotima 20
disgust 133, 144; and abjection 147–50; as aesthetic response 144–7; context and ambiguity 150–2; and eroticism 144, 151; and horror 150–1
disinterestedness 44, 45, 49, 51, 53, 57
Dobie, Elizabeth Ann 169 n. 36
Douglas, Mary 166 n. 15
Duncan, Carol 161 n. 31
Dupin, Aurore (George Sand) 31
Dutton, Denis 157 n. 17
Eagleton, Terry 161 n. 23, 172 n. 21
Eakins, Thomas 75
Ecker, Gisela 155 n. 3
education and training 59–61, 67, 69–70: and genius 59–60, 65; and music 62, 63, 65; and painting 74–5, 78–80; Rousseau on 66
Eliot, George (Mary Ann Evans) 71
Elkins, James 162 n. 36
empiricism 38
entertainment 33, 68–9; popular 26, 72–3, 108, 110
epistemology 13
eroticism 42, 51, 53: and abjection 144, 151; and disgust 144, 151; and pleasure 41, 43–4
essentialism 142
Etcoff, Nancy 165 n. 3
ethics 13
Evans, Mary Ann (George Eliot) 71
expression theories 31–4, 110, 112
Fausto-Sterling, Anne 155 n. 1
Feagin, Susan L. 164 n. 35
Feal, Carlos 161 n. 32
Feal, Rosemary Geisdorfer 161 n. 32
Felski, Rita 155 n. 3
Ferry, Luc 161 n. 23
fibers 120
film 25, 108, 114; see also movies
fine art 2, 6, 16, 32; and artist, modern concept of 25–9; and crafts 33–4, 108, 110, 111, 120; and entertainment 110
food: aesthetic status of 88, 96–8; in art 100–1; as art form 98–100; as art medium 101–2, 121–2; haute cuisine 88, 98; masculine–feminine duality and 84–5; mind–body duality and 88, 95; objective–subjective duality and 92–5; objectivity of 96, 97; and pleasure 90–2; rationality–emotion duality and 95; and religion 96–7; representational meaning of 96–7; in rituals 96–7; and sex 89–90; in still-lifes 100
Foster, Hal 170 n. 2
Foucault, Michel 164 n. 28
Freeland, Cynthia 157 n. 12, 162 n. 37, 166 nn. 3 and 4, 170 n. 1, 173 nn. 47 and 49
Freeman, Barbara Claire 136, 164 n. 43
Fry, Roger 167 n. 18
Frye, Marilyn 127
gardening 27
Garrard, Mary 82
Gaskell, Elizabeth 71
gastronomy 98
gender issues: definition of 2–6
genius 6, 10; and creativity 29–31; and education and training 59–60, 65; in music 66–9; and subjectivity 66–9, 72; women novelists and 73
Gentileschi, Artemisia 54–6, 55, 82
Gérôme, Jean-Léon 51–3, 52 Gilbert, Katharine Everett 156 n. 7
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy 171 n. 16
Goody, Jack 165 n. 6
Gould, Timothy 171 n. 16
Gracyk, Theodore 167 n. 9
Greer, Germaine 164 n. 34
Grontkowski, Christine R. 162 n. 39
Gross, Elizabeth 173 n. 43
Grosz, Elizabeth 148–9, 155 n. 1, 170 n. 7, 172 nn. 21, 24 and 27, 174 n. 51
Hall, Kim 160 nn. 14 and 19
Hanslick, Eduard 111
Happenings 114
Haraway, Donna 162 n. 38
Hatoum, Mona 146
Hawthorne, Nathaniel 73
Hawthorne, Susan 157 n. 15
hearing 85, 86, 87, 95: externality of 92–3
Heartney, Eleanor 169 n. 41
Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn 63, 64–5
Herndon, Marcia 162 n. 2
Higgonet, Anne 80–1, 164 n. 41
Hirst, Damien 130
history 20
Hobbes, Thomas 39
Holly, Michael Ann 162 n. 36
Holzer, Jenny 117
Home, Henry, Lord Kames 92
hooks, bell 162 n. 37
Horace 18
Howes, David 165 n. 1
Hume, David 41; On the Standard of Taste 40, 90
Hutcheson, Frances 40, 159 n. 5, 160 n. 20
hysteria 30
imagery of pregnancy and birth: appropriation by men 14, 22, 30–1
Impressionism 80
Irigaray, Luce 140–4, 157 n. 15, 162 n. 39, 171 n. 18
Jacobson, Anne Jaap 159 n. 7
Janaway, Christopher 156–7 n. 10, 157 n. 16
Jay, Martin 162 n. 39
Kahlo, Frida 82
Kamuf, Peggy 172 n. 22
Kandinsky, Wassily 158 n. 30
Kant, Immanuel 29, 31, 93, 133, 134–5; on aesthetic idea 142–3; on beauty 43, 46; Critique of Judgment 30, 44, 92; on disgust 145; on disinterestedness 45; on negative pleasure 135; on pleasure 92; on sublimity 7, 46, 47, 81–2, 135–7, 139; on taste 44–6, 90
Kauffmann, Angelica 76
Keller, Evelyn Fox 162 n. 39, 171 n. 17
Kelly, Mary 140
Kennick, William 168 n. 19
Kent, Sarah 172 n. 23
Kerker, Gustave 163 n. 7
Kivy, Peter 159 n. 4
Klinger, Cornelia 50, 155 n. 3, 160 n. 21
Kneller, Jane 160 nn. 14 and 21
Korsmeyer, Carolyn 159 n. 7, 160 n. 16, 164 n. 38, 165 n. 1, 166 n. 13, 173 n. 49
Kourany, Janet 156 n. 3
Krasner, Lee 82
Krauss, Rosalind 174 n. 50
Kris, Ernst 158 n. 34
Kristeller, Paul Osker 157 n. 18
Kruger, Barbara 104
Kuhn, Helmut 156 n. 7
Kuppers, Petra 169 n. 43
Kurz, Otto 158 n. 34
Labowitz, Leslie 166 n. 6
Lacan, Jacques: language 147; symbolic order 139–40
Lacy, Suzanne 166 n. 6
Langer, Suzanne 110, 158 n. 30
language 147–8; and subjectivity 140–1
Laurentiis, Dino de 173 n. 48
Lechte, John 173 n. 41
LeDoeuff, Michelle 163 n. 20
Lee Bul 124
Leonardo da Vinci 26
Lévi-Strauss, Claude 165 n. 6
Lind, Marcia 159 n. 7, 160 n. 19
Lippard, Lucy 117–18, 166 n. 5, 166–7 n. 6
Lipton, Eunice 164 n. 33
literature 27, 69–74, 107; aesthetic taste in 72–3; modernism and 110–11; novels 60, 69; objective–subjective duality and 73–4; poetry 69–70, 71; public–domestic duality and 71; subjectivity of 73–4; writing and selling of 72–3
Lloyd, Genevieve 156 n. 2, 170 n. 7
Locke, John 159 n. 3
Lorraine, Tamsin 170 n. 7
Lucie-Smith, Edward 169 n. 39, 173 n. 39
Lyotard, Jean-François 155–6 n. 6; on sublime 137, 139
McCabe, Colin 167 n. 8
MacColl, San 165 n. 46
madness: and creativity 20, 29, 30
Man, Eva Kit Wah 173 n. 38
manuscripts, illuminated 23–5, 24
Mapplethorpe, Robert 50
Marcus, Greil 169 n. 42
masculine–feminine duality 124; and artists, perception of 14; and creativity 19–22; emotion 67–8; and food 84–5; painting 76; in public and domestic spheres 13–14; rationality and 12–14; and taste 46–7
mathematics: and music 20, 68; and painting 27, 78–80
Mattick, Paul Jr. 160 n. 21, 161 n. 23, 171 n. 17
Mermin, Dorothy 163 n. 21, 164 nn. 24 and 26
Meyers, Diana Tietjens 159 n. 12, 170 n. 5
Miller, Geoffrey 165 n. 3
Miller, William Ian 145
mimesis 17–19, 22, 109, 116–17
mind–body duality 22, 131–3; and food 88, 95; senses and 87
Minimalism 114
Mitchell, Juliet 172 n. 21
Modleski, Tania 167 n. 8
Moen, Marcia 160 n. 14
Moi, Toril 172 n. 21
Montebello, Philippe de 104
Morreau, Jacqueline 172 n. 23
Morris, William 33
Mortensen, Ellen 171 n. 18
Moser, Mary 76
Motherwell, Robert 168 n. 20
movies: food in 101; horror 150–1, see also film
Moxey, Keith 162 n. 36
Mulvey, Laura 53, 118, 161 n. 33, 174 n. 50
Murasaki Shikibo 70
music 27, 60, 61–9, 107; classical theories of 17, 20; composition of 61, 65–6; education and training for 62, 63, 65; genius and 66–9; mathematics and 2, 68; modernism and 110–11; performance of 61, 62–5; popular 108; professionalism and 61–3, 65–6
musicology 50
narrative arts 108
National Endowment for the Arts 126
nature: in imagery 137
Nead, Lynda 161 n. 31
needlework 23, 27, 33, 108, 120
Neshat, Sherin 124
Neuls-Bates, Carol 66, 163 n. 6
New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 163 n. 9
New York Times: nature of art survey 104–5, 115, 116
Nietzsche, Friedrich: Apollonian creative impulse 137; Birth of Tragedy 137–8; Dionysian creative impulse 137–9; individuation 138
Nixon, Mignon 166 n. 18
Nochlin, Linda 74, 161 n. 32, 164 n. 36
novels 60, 69–71, 73, 81–2; Japanese 70; professionalism and 69, 72
Nye, Andrea 157 n. 15
O’Keeffe, Georgia 165 n. 46
O’Neill, Maggie 167 n. 10
objective–subjective duality: and food 92–5; and literature 73–4; and painting 80–1
Oliver, Kelly 172 n. 24, 173 nn. 41 and 44
optics 26
Orlan 126
painting 25, 27, 60, 74–81; classical theories of 17, 18; drawing manuals 79–80; education and training for 74–5; linear perspective 26, 78–81; and mathematics 27, 78–80; models 75–6; modernism and 110–11; objective–subjective duality and 80–1; professionalism and 74; public–domestic duality and 74, 80–1; seeing and 75–8; still-lifes 100, 121; studios 75–6
Parker, Rozsika 157–8 n. 21, 166 nn. 5 and 17
Parrhasios 18
Phelan, Peggy 5, 114, 168 n. 25, 170 n. 52
Philippi, Desa 173 n. 40
Piper, Adrian M. S. 108, 160 n. 19
Plato 20, 165 n. 5; art, mimetic theory of 18; on beauty 38; Republic 18, 22; Symposium 20–2
pleasure 134; aesthetic 28, 41, 45, 49, 89–92; and aesthetic, concept of 38–9; and beauty 45; and desire 39, 41, 43–4; eating and 39; Kant on 92, 135; sensory 89–92; sexual 49; subjectivity and 45; taste and 46, 94, 97
poetry 27, 69–70, 71; classical theories of 17, 18, 19–20
Pollock, Griselda 109, 157–8 n. 21, 161–2 n. 33, 165 n. 46, 166 nn. 5 and 17, 167 n. 11
Pollock (movie) 158 n. 27
portrait modeling 17
Potter, Sally 118
Price, Janet 170 n. 7
professional–amateur duality 68–9
professionalism: and authorship 69, 72; in music 61–3, 65–6; in painting 74
public art 114
public–domestic duality 13–14; literature 71; painting 74, 80–1; see also professional–amateur duality
Purdom, Judy 169 n. 36
Pygmalion 18
racial issues 43, 46, 48, 53, 107–8
rationality 79; and artist, perception of 14; human–nonhuman duality and 11, 12; masculine–feminine duality and 12–14
readymades 113
reason–emotion duality 13, 14, 67–8; and food 95
Reckitt, Helena 166 n. 2
religion: food in 96–7; see also God
Renaissance: categorization of arts 26–7
Revel, Jean-François 98
Richter, Hans 168 n. 21
Rivière, Joan 127
Robinson, Hilary 172 n. 28
Rodin, Auguste 20, 21 Rosenblum, Robert 105
Roth, Moira 169 n. 42
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 66
Rubin, William 104
Sappho 20
Saville, Jenny 146
Schapiro, Miriam 120
Schiller, Friedrich 31
Schneemann, Carolee 105, 126–7
Schneider, Rebecca 161 n. 27, 169 n. 44
Schopenhauer, Arthur 3, 48–9, 66–7
Schor, Naomi 172 n. 30
science fiction 150
Sellers, Eugene 156 n. 9
senses 54, 85–9, 92–3, 95; and disgust 145; higher 86, 87, 92, 95; in imagery/metaphors 86, 90; lower 86–7, 92, 95, 102; masculine–feminine duality and 95; pleasure and 89–92
Serrano, Andres 130
Sheets-Johnstone, Maxine 170 n. 7
Sherman, Cindy 124, 125, 130, 150, 151
Shildrick, Margrit 170 n. 7
Shiner, Larry 156 n. 6, 157 n. 18, 158 n. 32, 167 n. 15
Sibley, Frank 94
Sikander, Shahzia 169 n. 36
Silverman, Kaja 162 n. 37
Silvers, Anita 155 n. 3, 167 n. 18
Sinfield, Alan 47
Sircello, Guy 158 n. 30
Smith, John Rubens 164 n. 37
Smith, Kiki 130
Smyth, Ethel 64
Soussloff, Catherine M. 158 n. 34
Steiner, Wendy 159 n. 12
Sterbak, Jana 101, 105, 106, 121–2
Stolnitz, Jerome 49, 50, 51, 160 n. 17
subjectivity: and abjection 148, 149; and beauty 38; and genius 66–9, 72; language and 140–1; and literature 73–4; and pleasure 45; sexuate 140–4; of taste 40, 93, 94, 95–6, 97–8
sublimity 42, 43, 133–40; abjection and 149; Burke on 42, 43, 47, 134, 136–7, 138; female 81–2, 136; God and 134, 137; Kant on 7, 46, 47, 81–2, 135–7, 139; Lyotard on 137, 139; mortality and 134; terror and 134, 135, 136
tapestries 23
taste, aesthetic 7, 39, 40–1, 90–2, 145; Kant on 44–6; in literature 72–3; masculine–feminine duality and 46–7; and pleasure 46
taste, gustatory 39–40, 145; internality of 92–3; Kant on 44–5; subjectivity of 93, 94, 95–6, 97–8
Tatarkiewicz, Władysław 157 n. 19, 167 n. 12
Telfer, Elizabeth 166 n. 16
terror: and sublimity 134, 135, 136
Tompkins, Jane 164 n. 29
Tormey, Alan 158 n. 30
tragedy 20
training: see education and training
tribal/traditional cultures 16, 25
Trippi, Laura 166 n. 18
Trollope, Frances 71
Turner, Maria 164 n. 40
Upton, George 67
Vasseleu, Cathryn 162 n. 39
Verhoeven, Peter 173 n. 48
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 64
vision 26, 54, 85, 86, 87, 95; externality 92–3
Warhol, Andy 117
Weitz, Morris 168 n. 19
Whitford, Margaret 143, 172 n. 31
Wilde, Oscar 29
Wilke, Hannah 151
Wiseman, Mary Bittner 160 n. 21
Wollen, Peter 118
Wollheim, Richard 168 n. 26
Women’s Movement 107
Woodmansee, Martha 72, 163 n. 22, 164 n. 30
Zeitlin, Froma I. 171 n. 19
Zeuxis 18
Ziegler, Suzanne 162 n. 2