Philosophy of the Arts An Introduction to Aesthetics 3rd Edition by Morris Weitz ISBN 9780415349796 0415349796

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ISBN 10: 0415349796

ISBN 13: 9780415349796

Author:  Morris Weitz 

First published in 1950, Philosophy of the Arts is a foundational text in the study of aesthetics, offering a comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of art. The third edition, released in 2005, includes significant revisions and updates, reflecting the evolving discourse in the field.

Table of contents: 

1 ART AND PLEASURE

Hume on taste and tragedy
Collingwood on art as amusement
Mill on higher and lower pleasures
The nature of pleasure

2 ART AND BEAUTY

Beauty and pleasure
Kant on beauty
The aesthetic attitude and the sublime
Art and the aesthetic
Gadamer and art as play
Art and sport
Summary

3 ART AND EMOTION

Tolstoy and everyday expressivism
Aristotle and katharsis
Expression and imagination
Croce and ‘intuition’
Collingwood’s expressivism
Expression vs expressiveness
Summary

4 ART AND UNDERSTANDING

Hegel, art and mind
Art, science and knowledge
Aesthetic cognitivism, for and against
Imagination and experience

The objects of imagination
Art and the world

Understanding as a norm

Art and human nature

Summary

5 MUSIC AND SONIC ART

Music and pleasure
Music and emotion
Music as language
Music and representation
Musical vocabulary and musical grammar
Résumé
The uniqueness of music
Music and beauty
Music as the exploration of sound
Sonic art and digital technology
Summary

6 THE VISUAL ARTS

What is representation?
Representation and artistic value
Art and the visual
Visual art and the non-visual
Film as art
Montage vs long shot
‘Talkies’
The ‘author’ in film
Summary

7 THE LITERARY ARTS

Poetry and prose
The unity of form and content
Figures of speech
Expressive language
Poetic devices
Narrative and fiction
Literature and understanding
Summary

8 THE PERFORMING ARTS

Artist, audience and performer
Painting as the paradigm of art
Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy

Performance and participation
The art of the actor
Summary

9 ARCHITECTURE AS AN ART

The peculiarities of architecture
Form, function and ‘the decorated shed’
Façade, deception and the ‘Zeitgeist’
Functionalism
Formalism and ‘space’
Résumé
Architectural expression
Architecture and understanding
Summary

10 MODERN ART

The break with tradition
Experimental art and the avant-garde
The art of the readymade
Conceptual art
The market in art
Art and leisure
Summary

11 THE AESTHETICS OF NATURE

Objectivism vs subjectivism
Art and interpretation
The artist’s intention and the ‘intentional fallacy’
The aesthetics of nature
Summary

12 THEORIES OF ART

Defining art
Art as an institution
Marxism and the sociology of art
Lévi-Strauss and structuralism
Derrida, deconstruction and postmodernism
Normative theory of art
Summary

Finding examples

Bibliography

Index

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