Contemplating Art
Essays in Aesthetics
1st Edition
Published on 5. October 2006
432 pages
978-0-19-152563-6 (ISBN)
Description
Contemplating Art is a compendium of writings from the last ten years by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The book contains twenty-four essays and is divided into seven parts. The first is about issues relating to art in general, not specific to one art form. The second and longest part of the book is about philosophical problems specific to music. The third part focuses on pictorial art, and the fourth on interpretation, in particular the interpretation of literature and literary language. In the remaining parts of the book Levinson discusses aesthetic properties, issues in historical aesthetics, humour, and intrinsic value.
These lively essays, rigorous but accessible, will appeal not only to philosophers but also to musicologists, literary theorists, art critics, and reflective lovers of the arts.
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Jerrold Levinson is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maryland, College Park. His publications include Music, Art, and Metaphysics (1990), The Pleasures of Aesthetics (1998), and Music in the Moment (1998). He is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics (2003) and co-editor of Aesthetic Concepts (2001). He is Past President of the American Society for Aesthetics and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Aesthetics. His work is widely anthologized and translated into various languages.
Content
- Introduction
- Part One. Art
- 1: The Irreducible Historicality of the Concept of Art
- 2: Artworks as Artifacts
- 3: Emotion in Response to Art
- 4: Elster on Artistic Creativity
- Part Two. Music
- 5: Sound, Gesture, Space, and the Expression of Emotion in Music
- 6: Musical Expressiveness as Hearability-as-Expression
- 7: Non-existent Artforms and the Case of Visual Music
- 8: Music as Narrative and Music as Drama
- 9: Film Music and Narrative Agency
- 10: Evaluating Music
- 11: Musical Thinking
- 12: Musical Chills
- Part Three. Pictures
- 13: Wollheim on Pictorial Representation
- 14: What Is Erotic Art?
- 15: Erotic Art and Pornographic Pictures
- Part Four. Interpretation
- 16: Two Notions of Interpretation
- 17: Who's Afraid of a Paraphrase?
- 18: Hypothetical Intentionalism: Statement, Objections, and Replies
- Part Five. Aesthetic Properties
- 19: Aesthetic Properties, Evaluative Force, and Differences of Sensibility
- 20: What Are Aesthetic Properties?
- Part Six. History
- 21: The Aesthetics of Schopenhauer
- 22: Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem
- Part Seven. Other Matters
- 23: The Concept of Humour
- 24: Intrinsic Value and the Notion of a Life
