Contemplating art : essays in aesthetics / / Jerrold Levinson

• Autore: Levinson Jerrold
• Pubblicazione: Oxford, : Clarendon Press; Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 423 pages)
• Disciplina: 701/.17
• Soggetto topico: Aesthetics; Art - Philosophy; Arts
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Contemplating art
• ISBN: 0-19-170998-0; 0-19-152563-4; 1-4356-2123-9; 1-281-14889-X; 9786611148898
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818455203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II