Index
Abramovic, Marina 279
Abrams, M. H. 117, 150– 56
absorption 63–74, 77, 91, 159, 187, 188
Acconci, Vito 25, 279
Acropolis, the 2
Addison, Joseph 54, 56, 183
Adorno, Theodor 8, 11, 124, 164,
261, 263
on originality 122– 27
aesthetic affirmation 262–63, 274, 282
aisthesis 55
Althusser, Louis 22, 263, 265– 66
Altieri, Charles 273
amusement 75, 205
Collingwood on 80
Angkor Watt 82
antagonism 7–8, 14–17, 156, 241–42, 251,
266 – 67, 273, 278, 288
Kant and Schiller on 14– 16
antiessentialism 21– 22
Aristotle 2, 18, 24, 26–30, 46–49, 54, 60
on catharsis 48, 78, 97, 218–21, 235
on pity and fear 218– 20
on point of view 27– 28
on representation 46– 48
on requirements for tragedy 48– 50
Armstrong, Louis 86, 283
articulation, philosophy as 4– 5
Austen, Jane 2, 163, 211
Pride and Prejudice261, 278
Austin, J. L. 216
autonomism 227– 34
extreme vs. moderate 229, 233– 34
avant-gardism 261, 274, 277– 80Bacon, Sir Francis 54
Bach, J. S. 172, 276
Bakhtin, Mikhail 132
Balanchine, George 77, 283
Balzac, Honoré de 261, 263
Barrell, John 128
Barth, John 68, 277
Barthelme, Donald 278
Barthes, Roland 130–31, 150
Battersby, Christine 131– 32
Baumgarten, Alexander 54– 55
Baxandall, Michael 65–66, 158– 59
on influence 119
on intentional understanding 149
Beardsley, Monroe 24, 63–66, 69, 72, 100, 157
on aesthetic/nonaesthetic 246
on art and morality 228– 29
on clarification 287
on expression 100
on Levinson 18
on texture vs. structure 66
on the value of art 140– 41
on unity, intensity, and complexity 66
beauty 23, 53–74, 92, 179– 81
Hegel on 120– 21
Schiller on 12– 13
Becerra, Antonio 245
Beckett, Samuel 31, 68, 247, 263, 277
Beethoven, Ludwig van 91, 97–99, 144, 179,
247, 276
Beiser, Frederick 13
Bell, Clive 57, 72
Benjamin, Walter 129
Berger, John 244304