Philosophy of the arts [Texte imprimé] : an introduction to aesthetics / Gordon Graham

Bibliogr. p. 252-255

Art and pleasure -- Hume on taste and tragedy -- Collingwood on art as amusement -- Mill on higher and lower pleasures -- The nature of pleasure -- 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 -- Art and emotion -- Tolstoy and everyday expressivism -- Aristotle and Katharsis -- Expression and imagination -- Croce and 'intuition' -- Collingwood's expressivism -- Expression versus expressiveness -- 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 -- Music and sonic art -- Music and pleasure -- Music and emotion -- Music as language -- Music and representation -- Musical vocabulary and musical grammar -- The uniqueness of music -- Music and beauty -- Music as the exploration of sound -- Sonic art and digital technology -- The visual arts -- What is representation? -- Representation and artistic value - Art and the visual -- Visual art and the non-visual -- Film as art -- Montage versus Longshot -- Talkies -- The 'auteur' in film -- 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 -- 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 -- Architecture as an art -- The peculiarities of architecture -- Form and function and 'the decorated -- Shed' façade, deception, and the 'Zeitgeist' -- Functionalism -- Formalism and 'space' -- Architectural expression -- Architecture and understanding -- 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 -- The aesthetics of nature -- The objectivity of aesthetic evaluation -- The artist's intention -- The intentionalist -- 'Fallacy' -- Natural beauty -- Environmentalism and the aesthetics of nature -- Theories of art -- Defining art -- Art as an institution -- Sociology and the marxist theory of art - Lukacs and realism -- Levy-Strauss and structuralism -- Derrida and deconstruction -- Hegel and Schopenhauer : normative theory of art