1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797613603321

Autore

Black Barrington

Titolo

Both sides of the bench / / Barrington Black

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hampshire, England : , : Waterside Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-910979-01-5

1-910979-00-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Disciplina

347.014

Soggetti

Judges

Defense (Criminal procedure)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Inside cover; Copyright and publication details; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Dedication; List of Illustrations; Barrington Black is the one on the left; Grandmother's sister Auntie Gertie, married to Solomon Levy who played cricket for Gloucester in 1911; My father with two friends, Alexandria 1944; Grandmother's brother, Uncle Louis, the family icon; Circa 1918: Uncle Louis on a tank with Lloyd George, for whom he wrote speeches; President of Leeds University Union 1952; Leeds University Rag Revue poster 1952; In front of me is The Princess Royal with Margot Fonteyn

Sir William Garrow: His Life, Times and Fight for JusticeTwenty Famous Lawyers; Inside back cover; Back cover

Sommario/riassunto

The autobiography of one of the UK's foremost defence solicitors who was later a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate and Circuit Judge in the Crown Court before becoming a Supreme Court Justice in Gibraltar.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784535203321

Autore

Levinson Jerrold

Titolo

Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / / Jerrold Levinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

0-19-170998-0

0-19-152563-4

1-4356-2123-9

1-281-14889-X

9786611148898

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (viii, 423 pages)

Disciplina

701/.17

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Art - Philosophy

Arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The irreducible historicality of the concept of art -- Artworks as artifacts -- Emotion in response to art -- Elster on artistic creativity -- Sound, gesture, space, and the expression of emotion in music -- Musical expressiveness as hearability-as-expression -- Nonexistent artforms and the case of visual music -- Music as narrative and music as drama -- Film music and narrative agency -- Evaluating music -- Musical thinking -- Musical chills -- Wollheim on pictorial representation -- What is erotic art? -- Erotic art and pornographic pictures -- Two notions of interpretation -- Who's afraid of a paraphrase? -- Hypothetical intentionalism : statement, objections, and replies -- Aesthetic properties, evaluative force, anddifferences of sensibility -- What are aesthetic properties? -- Schopenhauer's aesthetics -- Hume's Standard of taste : the real problem -- The concept of humor -- Intrinsic value and the notion of a life.

Sommario/riassunto

'Contemplating Art' is a compendium of writings by one of the leading figures in aesthetics, Jerrold Levinson. The 24 essays range over issues



in general aesthetics and those relating to specific arts - in particular music, film, and literature.