Art & Interpretation: An Anthology Of Readings In Aesthetics
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Item#: | 9781551111902 |
Author | Dayton (Ed) |
Cover | Paperback |
On Hand | 11 |
Art and Interpretation is a comprehensive anthology of readings on aesthetics. Its aim is to present fundamental philosophical issues in such a way as to create a common vocabulary for those from diverse backgrounds to communicate meaningfully about aesthetic issues. To that end, the editor has provided selections from a wide variety of challenging works in aesthetic theory, both classical and modern. The approach is often cross-disciplinary. Within the discipline of philosophy it seeks to balance readings from the analytic tradition with continental European, hermeneutical postmodern (including deconstructionist), and feminist readings.
The anthology is thus broadly conceived, but by grouping the readings into sections such as ‘Expression and Aesthetic object,’ ‘Psychology and Interpretation,’ ‘Marxist Theory,’ and ‘Culture, Gender, and Difference,’ it aims as well to provide depth of coverage for each topic or issue. The book opens with a historical section containing substantial selections from Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Shelley and Nietzsche; these readings introduce themes that recur and are developed in the remainder of the anthology.
The text’s aim is to present fundamental philosophical issues in such a way as to create a common vocabulary for those from diverse backgrounds to communicate meaningfully about aesthetic issues.
Preface
Part 1. Historical Readings
Introduction
Plato
Selections from Republic Book X
Selections from Symposium
Aristotle
Selections from Poetics
David Hume
Standard of Taste
Immanuel Kant
Selections from Analytic of the Beautiful
Selections from Analytic of the Sublime
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Defence of Poetry
Friedrich Nietzsche
Selections from The Birth of Tragedy
On Truth and Lies in a Non-Moral Sense
Part 2. Expression and the Aesthetic Object
Introduction
R.G. Collingwood
The Craft Theory of Art and Art as Expression
John Dewey
Art as Experience
Susanne Langer
Expressiveness
Stephen Pepper
The Aesthetic Object and the Consummatory Field
Roman Ingarden
On the Phenomenological Formulation of the Aesthetic Objection
Monroe C. Beardsley
The Aesthetic Point of View
Mary Mothersill
The Judgement of Taste
Christine Battersby
Situating the Aesthetic: A Feminist Defence
Part 3. The Task of Definition
Introduction
Ludwig Wittgenstein
On Family Resemblance and On Seeing As
Stanley Cavell
Excursus on Wittgenstein’s Vision of Language
Arthur C. Danto
Artworks and Real Things
Barbara Savedoff
The Art Object
George Dickie
The New Institutional Theory of Art
Susan L. Feagin
On Defining and Interpreting Art Intentionalistically
Jerrold Levinson
Defining Art Historically
Jenefer M. Robinson
Style and Personality in the Literary Work
Part 4. Psychology and Interpretation
Introduction
Sigmund Freud
The Relation of the Poet to Day-Dreaming
Carl Gustav Jung
Psychology and Literature
Ursula K. LeGuin
The Child and the Shadow
Some Thoughts on Narrative
Part 5. Hermeneutics and Interpretation
Introduction
Martin Heidegger
Selections from Being and Time
The Origin of the Work of Art
Hans-Georg Gadamer
The University of the Hermeneutical Problem
Paul Ricoeur
The Hermeneutical Function of Distanciation
E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
In Defense of the Author
Roland Barthes
The Death of the Author
Rosalind Krauss
Poststructuralism and the Paraliterary
Joseph Margolis
Reinterpreting Interpretation
Part 6. Marxist Theory
Introduction
Karl Marx
Alienated Labour
Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Peter Bürger
The Theory of the Avant-Garde and Critical Literary Science
Herbert Marcuse
The Aesthetic Dimension
Part 7. (Post)modernism
Introduction
Clement Greenberg
Modernist Painting
Jürgen Habermas
Modernity—An Incomplete Project
Jean-Françis Lyotard
Answering the Question: What is Postmodernism?
Linda Hutcheon
Representing the Postmodern
Ihab Hassan
The Culture of Postmodernism
Part 8. Culture, Gender and Difference
Introduction
Andrea Huyssen
Mass Culture as Woman: Modernism’s Other
Janet Wolff
Women’s Knowledge and Women’s Art
Christine Battersby
The Margins Within Post-modernism and the Female Author
Naomi Scheman
The Body Politic/The Impolitic Body/Bodily Politics
James Clifford
On Ethnographic Allegory
On Collecting Art and Culture
Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe and Ballerino Cohen
The Postmodernist Turn In Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective
Jean-Françis Lyotard
Universal History and Cultural Differences
Richard Rorty
Cosmopolitanism Without Emancipation: A Response to Lyotard
“A very intelligent and wide-ranging collection.” — Ronald Moore, University of Washington, co-author, Puzzles in Art