The Philosophy of Art, second edition by Davies, Stephen -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents List of Figures Preface

Why Study the Philosophy of Art? Applications and Questions References and Readings

Acknowledgments 1 Evolution and Culture

1 A Biological Basis for Art 2 The Cultural Invention of Art 3 The Big and the Small Picture 4 “It all depends what you mean by the word ‘art’” Questions Readings

2 Defining Art

1 Necessary Conditions and Sufficient Conditions 2 Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism 3 Arguments against Art’s Definition 4 If Not an Essence, What Unifies the Concept of Art? 5 Some Definitions of Art 6 Definitions and Non-Western Art 7 Taking Stock Questions Readings

3 Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art

1 Aesthetic and Artistic Properties 2 The Aesthetic Attitude and Art for Art’s Sake 3 Aesthetic Theory Criticized 4 Artworks that Pose a Challenge to Aesthetic Theory 5 Art’s Contextually Relative Properties 6 Art for Art’s Sake, Again Questions Readings

4 Varieties of Art

1 Artworks as Public Items 2 Are Artworks Created or Discovered? 3 Are all Artworks Potentially Multiple? 4 Multiply Instanced Artworks 5 New Works Based on Old Ones 6 The Ontological Variety of Works of Art 7 Is the Identity of an Artwork Fixed or Evolving? Questions Readings

5 Interpretation

1 When Is Interpretation Necessary? 2 What Is Interpreted? 3 Actual Intentionalism 4 Hypothetical Intentionalism 5 Value Maximization 6 Uses for Interpretation 7 Theory-Driven Interpretations 8 Does Interpretation Change the Work’s Meaning? 9 What is Interpretation’s Primary Purpose? Questions Readings

6 Expression and Emotional Responses

1 The Nature of Emotions 2 Identifying Others’ Emotions 3 Identifying the Emotions in Art 4 The Expression of Emotion in Music and Abstract Art 5 The Emotional Response of the Audience to the Work of Art Questions Readings

7 Pictorial Representation and the Visual Arts

1 The Experience of Representation 2 Representation and Resemblance 3 Representation: Culture and Biology, Again 4 Art versus Non-Art: A Matter of Style 5 Representation in Photographs and Paintings 6 Photographic Representation 7 Photography as an Art 8 Moving Images Questions Readings

8 The Value of Art

1 Evaluation and Functionality 2 Rules, Universality, and Objectivity in Artistic Evaluation 3 The Purpose and Form of Artistic Evaluation 4 What Is Rewarding about the Experience of Art? 5 Messages through Art 6 The Relation between Artistic and Moral Values 7 Should a Work’s Immorality Undermine its Claims to Artistic Merit? 8 Morality in Documentaries and Fictions Questions Readings

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