An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Suppose, then, that one finds oneself caught up in a difficult and obscure course of personal and cultural development. One migh ...

before us in order tobeexperienced. Dewey distinguishes between the art product (the vehicleofthe artistic experience) and the w ...

activity or doing one among a great variety of possible things in a specific way. They involve the balancing or adjustment of so ...

The variety of works of art must be faced. Perhaps there is no single central function or functions that different works of art ...

sense^32 orwhat is beyond exchangeorunburdeningorthe union of sense, need, impulse, and action? How are such ends achievable thr ...

way to make the sensuous man rational than by first making him aes- thetic.”^34 But Schiller also argues, second, that the exper ...

roles can become more opaque to one another. Manufacturers and those predominantly bound up in immediate social reproduction (hi ...

Schiller imagines, almost certainly erroneously, that once upon a time Greek life formed a beautiful whole in which religion, ar ...

with many. Given the nature of modern divided labor, it is very difficult to see how this experience might be transformed. Secon ...

ancient and modern, and it does not easily go away. Yet the social differences that provoke this idea and make it seem necessary ...

works to which attention is to be directed? As Monroe Beardsley usefully objects to Levinson, if“correctly (or standardly)”in Le ...

should matter for us. They undertake to specify a function for art in solving a fundamental human problem or in answering to a f ...

instanced in some central cases, does seem centrally to matter for us, in ways about which we might hope to become more articula ...

While it is logically possible to have both agreement in the application of the termartbut disagreement about the functions of a ...

tendentiousness of theory, while Mandelbaum and Sircello are attracted by functional explanations of art, yet tentative about as ...

seems also in every particular case to be by and for particular makers and audiences, responding to problems and pressures that ...

[feeling].) The major theorists of representation, form, and expression– Aristotle, Kant, and Collingwood, and their contemporar ...

2 Representation, imitation, and resemblance Representation and aboutness Art products and performances seem in some rough sense ...

mere stroke were already a means of incipiently presenting a three- dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface. Yet these fa ...

universalinthe particular: for example, what it is like to recognize someone from the scar on his thigh (as Odysseus’s nurse Eur ...