Aesthetics : the big questions / edited by Carolyn Korsmeyer

Contributor(s):

Korsmeyer, C

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Philosophy - the big questionsPublication details: Malden, Mass. Oxford Blackwell 1998ISBN:

0631205934
0631205942

Subject(s):

Aesthetics

DDC classification:

111.85 KOR

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	111.85 KOR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002000263278

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present.

Includes index

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Part I What is Art?
Preface
The Live Creature
The Artworld
Crafty Women and the Hierarchy of the Arts
Zen and the Art of Tea
Dressing Down Dressing Up: The Philosophic Fear of Fashion
Part II Experience and Appreciation
How Do We Encounter Art?
Preface
A Contested Term
What is "Aesthetic"?
The Aesthetic Attitude
Locating the Aesthetic
From Truth and Method
How is Art Presented to the Public?
Artistic Dropouts
Museums: From Object to Experience
The MoMA's Hot Mamas
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Part III Aesthetic Evaluation: Who Decides?
Preface
Of the Standard of Taste
From Distinction
Disinterestedness and Political Art
High and Low Thinking About High and Low Art
Part IV Can We Learn from Art?
Preface
From The Republic
The Sovereignty of Good
From Love's Knowledge
Carnage and Glory, Legends and Lies
Paintings and Their Places
Part V Tragedy, Sublimity, Horror
Why Do We Enjoy Painful Experiences in Art?
Preface
Tragedy
From the Poetics
From The Birth of Tragedy
Sublimity
Descent into the Maelstrom
From A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
From The Critique of Judgement
Horror
From The Philosophy of Horror
Realist Horror
Part VI Where is the Artist in the Work of Art?
Preface
Genius and Creativity
From Critique of Judgement
Gender and Genius
Interpreting the Artist in Society
What is an Author?
Truth and other Cultures
Musical Thinking and Thinking About Music

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Carolyn Korsmeyer is Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She is the editor (with Peggy Zeglin Brand) of Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (1995) and (with Hilde Hein) Aesthetics in Feminist Perspective (1993) and the author (with Dubois, Kelly, Kennedy, and Robinson) of Feminist Scholarship: Kindling in the Groves of Academe (1985).