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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.



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Table of Contents

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

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      Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
      Publication Date: 28/02/1999
      ISBN13: 9781551111902, 978-1551111902
      ISBN10: 155111190X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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.



      Trade Review

      “A very intelligent and wide-ranging collection.” — Ronald Moore, University of Washington, co-author, Puzzles in Art



      Table of Contents

      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

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