An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

descriptively [i.e. whenitis about something]...This is not at all to say that art is a language, but only that its ontology is ...

Here Danto proposes that“the point of intersection between style, expres- sion, and rhetoric must be close to what we are in pur ...

artists find themselves in, and are part of that historical moment.”^47 That is, there are, one might say, historically afforded ...

artwork, so there is nothing that exhibits this essence more than anything else, nor is it important that it should do so. In a ...

exemplar for us all–meaningfulness as such in thoroughly worked form. Danto’s theory of artistic expression undervalues this amb ...

are also various ways of conceiving of how expressiveness enters into a work of art. Theories of artistic expression can be usef ...

Though they occur, they can be suppressed, with attention held on the object of recognition or thought. It can often be importan ...

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think th ...

speaking. It has also something to do with consciousness: the emotion expressed is an emotion of whose nature the person who fee ...

expression of emotion from“mere discharge”^66 of it, and he distinguishes artistic expression, which involves the working of mat ...

through motives and developments suggests more craft and concentration on materials than overwhelming feeling. Even if Beethoven ...

presence of expressive properties does not entail the occurrence of a prioract of expression...The expressive qualities of a wor ...

the audience drops out. Emotion terms are about the work and its subject matter, and comparisons and contrasts among works can a ...

were there not also the practice of describing both the looks and feeling states of human beings in these terms. It is true that ...

“No cognitive theory of aesthetic experience can explain why one should desire to listen to a symphony again, any more than one ...

feeling (and then further embodying attention and response in a work) are things that situated individual agents do by drawing o ...

a hard-boiled San Francisco detective might behave. When one solves one’s problem by making the work as one wanted it, then that ...

composer in the grip of an emotion during the process of composing. Instead, a work of music is correctly said to express a cert ...

the music precisely what it is.”^96 Against this Mitchell Green has objected that postulation of a musical persona or implied co ...

or asensumcharged with an emotion–is transformed into an emotion of consciousness which may be consciously worked through via th ...