Aesthetics by Goldblatt, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Acknowledgments for the Fourth Edition General Introduction Part I Painting

1 Against Imitation 2 The Limits of Likeness 3 Reality Remade 4 The “Perfect” Fake 5 Artistic Crimes 6 Form in Modern Painting 7 A Formal Analysis 8 Intentional Visual Interest 9 Works of Art and Mere Real Things 10 The Origin of the Work of Art 11 Why Are There No Great Women Artists? 12 Painting and Ethics 13 Art and Corruption

Part II Photography and Moving Pictures

14 The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction 15 Transparent Pictures 16 Why Photography Does Not Represent Artistically 17 The Hubble Photographs as Aesthetic Objects 18 Architectural Photography: The “Urban Photogénie” of Architainment 19 How Beauty Matters 20 Allegory of the Cave 21 Towards an Ontology of the Moving Image 22 Moving Pictures 23 Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look 24 Beauty and Evil 25 The Last King of Scotland: The Ethics of Race on Film

Part III Architecture

26 The Problem of Architecture 27 Home Is Where the Heart Is: Taking Architecture Personally 28 Ornament and Crime: Tattoos 29 Towards an Architecture 30 Architecture as Decorated Shelter 31 A Discussion of Architecture (with Christopher Norris) 32 How to Experience Architecture 33 Spectacular vs. Deferential Art Museums in the Twenty-First Century 34 Architectural Ghosts 35 Digital Architecture and the New Elegance

Part IV Music

36 On the Concept of Music 37 Ontology of Music 38 Making Tracks: The Ontology of Rock Music 39 Is Live Music Dead? 40 The Expression of Emotion in Music 41 Representation in Music 42 Sound and Semblance 43 African Music 44 Jazz and Language 45 A Topography of Musical Improvisation 46 Fakin’ It: Is There Authenticity in Commercial Music? 47 Can White People Sing the Blues? 48 Social Consciousness in Dancehall Reggae

Part V Literature

49 What Is Literature? 50 The Poetic Expression of Emotion 51 The Paradox of Expression 52 The Intention of the Author 53 What Is an Author? 54 Criticism as Retrieval 55 Beneath Interpretation 56 The Art of Writing 57 How to Eat a Chinese Poem 58 Imagination and Make-Believe

Part VI Performance

59 Ion 60 On Tragedy 61 The Birth of Tragedy 62 What Is Going On in a Dance? 63 Working and Dancing: A Response to Monroe Beardsley’s “What Is Going On in a Dance?” 64 Appreciating Dance: The View from the Audience 65 Literature as a Performing Art 66 The Artwork as Performance 67 Why (Not) Philosophy of Stand-Up Comedy? 68 Ventriloquism and Art 69 Magic: The Art of the Impossible

Part VII Mass Art

70 Defining Mass Art 71 Plato and the Mass Media 72 Adorno’s Case Against Popular Music 73 In Defence of Popular Arts 74 Television and Aesthetics 75 Relating Comics, Cartoons, and Animation 76 Videogames, Interactivity, and Art 77 Is It Only a Game? The Ethics of Video Game Play

Part VIII Nature and Everyday Aesthetics

78 Aesthetic Appreciation of the Natural Environment 79 Everyday Aesthetics 80 Kitsch 81 The Aesthetics of Junkyards 82 Nonsense in Public Places: Songs of Black Vocal Rhythm and Blues or Doo-Wop 83 Street Art 84 Jokes 85 Racist Humor 86 A Sensible Antiporn Feminism 87 Falling in Lust: Sexiness, Feminism, and Pornography

Part IX Art in General

88 Of the Standard of Taste 89 The Sublime 90 Judgments About the Beautiful 91 The Philosophy of Fine Art 92 Aesthetic Concepts 93 Categories of Art 94 The Role of Theory in Aesthetics 95 Art and Natural Selection 96 Feminism in Context

Contributors