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Aesthetics

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M.E. Sharpe, 1998 - Philosophy - 190 pages
James Manns presents a readable and entertaining examination of the most serious questions posed by the arts and our relation to them. In a clear and engaging fashion, he explores the central issues in aesthetics: aesthetic judgment, the nature and role of criticism, the elusiveness of the concept of art, and communication through art, and he critically (but sympathetically) considers that principal theories of art that focus on expression, form, and representation. Through the use of extensive, entertaining, and current examples (including film), Manns conveys the solid basics relating to the history and development of aesthetic theories, tries out these various theories against the art of the last half century, then outlines his own view revolving around the artist's intention and the act of communication.
  

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Contents

The Elusiveness of Art Questions of Definition and Delimitation
3
A Word Like Any Other Word
7
A Word Unlike Any Other A World Unlike Any Other
11
Two Different Worlds
13
Institutional Irregularities
15
Dantos Infirmities
18
Summary and Conclusion
23
Theories of Art Representation
26
A Pause for Reflection
97
Wiser ? Approaches
100
Wisdom Renounced
105
Intentions Intentionality and Artistic Communication
109
The Intentional Fallacy
110
Inside and Outside a Poem
113
The InsideOutside Distinction Evaluated
114
Originality
118

Its Origins in Ancient Greek Thought
29
Pictorial Representation During the Renaissance and Beyond
38
Pictorial Representation Recently
43
Truthful Representation in the Narrative Arts
47
Theories of Art Form
52
Formalism
54
Organicism
61
General Theory
67
Gestalt Theory and the Visual Arts
70
Gestalt Theory and Music
74
Final Thoughts
78
Theories of Art Expression
80
Thomas Reid
84
Leo Tolstoy
89
R G Collingwood
92
Arts Tragic Demise
123
The Human Factor in Art
127
Treating Works of Art as Persons
129
Universality Objectivity and the Claim of Taste
133
The Problem
134
David Hume
140
Thomas Reid
147
Immanuel Kant
156
Universality Revisited and Revised
168
A Final Thought
175
Notes
177
Bibliography
183
Index
185
About the Author
191
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Essays on Aesthetics, Poetics and Terminology of Literary Studies

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VOLUME 28 NUMBER 2 SPRING 1988
British Journal of Aesthetics Members also receive the Society's ... Arlington, Arlington, Texas He has written articles on eighteenth-century aesthetics, ...
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Aesthetics [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Barry Hartley Slater gives an overview of this branch of philosophy explaining concepts such as sublime, representation, aesthetic value, and expression
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JSTOR: Reid and His French Disciples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics
MANNS, JAMES W. Reid and His French Disci- ples: Aesthetics and Metaphysics. Leiden: ej Brill, 1994, 225 pp., $77.00 cloth. Professor Manns's book is a ...
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Depiction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Newall, Michael (2003), ‘A Restriction for Pictures and Some Consequences for a Theory of Depiction’, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 61: 381-94. ...
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A Guide to Graduate Aesthetics in North America
at the graduate level, demand for aesthetics as an area of ... some training in aesthetics, either as an area of speciali- ...
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is inadequate to distinguish between reasonable, understandable ...
Dickie’s book is a substantial revision of an earlier work, Aesthetics: An ... to aesthetics and should compete successfully. The book opens with a ...
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On the fidelity of pictures: A critique of Goodman's disjunction ...
Curving World: Hyperbolic Linear Perspective," Journal of Aesthetics. and Art Criticism, 32 (1973), 147-161. But if my argument for a, f is ...
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HUME AND HIS CRITICS
A special word on Hume's Aesthetics...Having done my duty to my students, ... We cannot list everything that has been written on Hume's Aesthetics. ...
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Contents of Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society
Richard E. Hart, "Langer’s Aesthetics of Poetry" (183-200) ...... Intentionalism in John Dewey’s Aesthetics....... James Manns ...
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Proceedings of the fifth International Congress of Aesthetics, Amsterdam ... Aesthetics and the theory of criticism; selected essays of Arnold Isenberg. ...
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