An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Likewise, it is the function of a photographer or a still-life painter not simply torecordthis vase of flowers, but instead to d ...

Here Aristotle’s account displays an interesting tension. On the one hand, he does specify requirements that must be satisfied b ...

circumstances and exigencies of ordinary experience”^72 by an artistic repre- sentation, these circumstances and exigencies them ...

will imagine the excitement and terror of the occasion, the power of the lion, the apprehension of the hunters, and so forth, an ...

unattached. It has alocalhabitation...[Its significance] is a function of what is in the actual scene in its interaction with wh ...

3 Beauty and form Beauty, absorption, and pleasure It has long been recognized that human beings find various visual and auditor ...

absorbing experience, where this affordance seems to be a function of the arrangement, form, or pattern of elements composing th ...

developed the concept ofaestheticsin its modern sense.Aisthesisin Greek means simply“sensation.”Beginning from the idea that aes ...

pleasure in apprehension. It has been argued by Addison, Shaftesbury, Burke, Kant, and Schopenhauer, among others, that we pay a ...

about normal response, but rather as efforts on the part of those captivated by beauty to articulate something about the nature ...

object”^15 that causes“the harmonious free play of the cognitive faculties”^16 in us as the defining feature of any beautiful ob ...

is also in no way practical, neither like that from the pathological ground of agreeableness nor like that from the intellectual ...

not from copying or aping (Nachmachung, Nachaffung), but from taking up and freely imitating (Nachahmung), following after, or b ...

models.”^31 As in the experience of beauty in nature, the audience must feelas thoughthe product is favorable to our cognitive a ...

the product as art becomes subject to some doubt. The result of wholly provocative or assertational intentions swerves toward tr ...

Individual formor what some have called the organic unity of the elements of a single work is closer to being a distinctive mark ...

successful work of art invites and sustains“absorption in form and quality, a giving-in to their force.”^38 It is not, however, ...

whole thoughts, attending to the function of a word in expressing the thought, not centrally to single word after single word. A ...

we may take“legitimate satisfactions”^47 in the“superior organization– perceptual, emotional, constructive”^48 that a painting c ...

Criticisms of formalist-aesthetic theories of art Despite (or because of) their intuitive plausibility and appeal, aesthetic the ...