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Zusatztext "This 4th Edition offers broad coverage of many fascinating contemporary topics while also including some of the key works in the history of aesthetics. This text demonstrates the vibrancy of aesthetics today without losing sight of its past."--Christopher Bartel! Appalachian State University"I've long considered Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts to be the best collection for undergraduate philosophy of art classes because of the breadth of its readings! and because of its excellent coverage of recent debates in the arts. The fourth edition builds on these strengths! expanding its coverage of contemporary topics."--Joshua Shaw! Penn State Erie! The Behrend College"The editors have? have imaginatively selected essays both canonical and offbeat from diverse traditions. This anthology would be engaging and accessible to undergraduates of all levels and majors! as it shows the importance of Aesthetics to everyday life! as well as? to philosophy and culture. It is an outstanding new contribution to the pedagogical literature in the field."--Carol S. Gould! Florida Atlantic University Informationen zum Autor David Goldblatt is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Denison University, the author of Art and Ventriloquism in Routledge’s Critical Voices Series, and co-editor of The Aesthetics of Architecture: Philosophical Investigations into the Art of Building , and has written numerous essays in the academic and popular press. Lee B. Brown (1932–2014) was Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University and the author of many articles on a wide range of philosophical subjects, including popular music, recorded music, and jazz. Stephanie Patridge is a Professor of Philosophy at Otterbein University. Her research focuses on aesthetic properties, and moral evaluation in imaginative contexts. Klappentext Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Zusammenfassung Aesthetics: A Reader in Philosophy of the Arts, fourth edition, contains a selection of ninety-six readings organized by individual art forms as well as a final section of readings in philosophical aesthetics that cover multiple art forms. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of contents Acknowledgements for the 4th Edition General Introduction Part 1: Painting Against Imitation Plato The Limits of Likeness Ernst Gombrich Reality Remade Nelson Goodman The "Perfect" Fake Nelson Goodman Artistic Crimes Denis Dutton Form in Modern Painting Clive Bell A Formal Analysis Edmund Burke Feldman Intentional Visual Interest Michael Baxandall Works of Art and Mere Real Things Arthur C. Danto The Origin of the Work of Art Martin Heidegger Why Are There No Great Women Artists? Linda Nochlin Painting and Ethics A. W. Eaton Art and Corruption David Alfaro Siqueiros Part II: Photography and Moving Pictures The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Walter Benjamin Transparent Pictures Kendall L. Walton Why Photography Does Not Represent Artistically Roger Scruton The Hubble Photographs as Aesthetic Objects Flo Leibowitz Architectural Photography: The "Urban Photogénie" of Architainment Jennifer Burris How Beauty Matters Peg Brand Weiser Allegory of the Cave Plato Towards an Ont...
