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Index
Cover
Half Title
Full Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Artists and art: a brief history of concepts
Conceptual foundations
The idea of the artist: ancient predecessors
Art-making: individuals and groups
Fine art and the modern concept of the artist
Genius
Expression theories of art
Summary
2 Aesthetic pleasures
The aesthetic
Taste and beauty
Burke on beauty
Kant on judgments of taste
Whose taste?
Aesthetic attitude theories
Feminist critiques of aesthetic perception
Summary
3 Amateurs and professionals
Education and training: who learns?
Music
Literature
Painting
Reassessing the past
Summary
4 Deep gender: taste and food
The five senses
Pleasure sensuous and aesthetic
Subjectivity and objectivity
A defense of taste
Food and/in/as art
Summary
5 What is art? (Art is what?)
Definitions and their contexts
Art and anti-art
Institutional theory
Art as a mirror: Arthur Danto
Feminist work and changing concepts of art
Summary
6 Difficult pleasures: sublimity and disgust
Mind and body revisited
Sublimity again
Luce Irigaray: sexuate subjectivity
Disgust as an aesthetic response
Disgust and abjection: Julia Kristeva
Disgust: context and ambiguity
Summary
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Back Matter
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