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A companion to aesthetics
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In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent...
In this extensively revised and updated edition, 168 alphabetically arranged articles provide comprehensive treatment of the main topics and writers in this area of aesthetics. Written by prominent scholars covering a wide-range of key topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Features revised and expanded entries from the first edition, as well as new chapters on recent developments in aesthetics and a larger number of essays on non-Western thought about art.
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- Creator
- edited by Stephen Davies ... [et al.]
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 2nd ed
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, c2009
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 621 pages)
- ISBNs
- 1405197935, 9781405169226, 128211719X, 9781405197939, 1782687173, 9781444310436, 9781282117198, 1444310429, 9786612117190, 9781782687177, 9781444310429, 1444310437, 1405169222
- OCLC
- ocn656363105, ocn276995805, ocn441887008
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- A Companion to Aesthetics; Contributors; Preface; Historical Overviews; art of the Paleolithic Gregory Currie; aesthetics in antiquity Stephen Halliwell; medieval and renaissance aesthetics John Marenbon; eighteenth-century aesthetics Paul Guyer; nineteenth- and twentieth-century Continental aesthetics Robert Wicks; twentieth-century Anglo-American aesthetics Stephen Davies & RobertStecker; The Arts; architecture Edward Winters; dance Julie Van Camp; drama James Hamilton; drawing, painting, and printmaking Patrick Maynard; literature David Davies
- motion pictures Noël Carroll; music and song John Andrew Fisher and Stephen Davies; opera Paul Thom; photography Patrick Maynard; poetry Anna Christina Ribeiro; sculpture Erik Koed; A; abstraction Robert Hopkins; Adorno, Theodor W(iesengrund) Paul Mattick; aesthetic attitude David E. Cooper; aesthetic education Pradeep A. Dhillon; aesthetic judgment Andrew Ward; aesthetic pleasure Jerrold Levinson; aesthetic properties Alan H. Goldman; aestheticism David Whewell; aesthetics of food and drink Carolyn Korsmeyer
- aesthetics of the environment Allen Carlsonaesthetics of the everyday Sherri Irvin; African aesthetics John Ayotunde (Tunde) Isola Bewaji; Amerindian aesthetics Anthony K. Webster; Aquinas, Thomas John Haldane; Aristotle Stephen Halliwell; art history Stephen Halliwell; artifact, art as George Dickie & Robert Stecker; "artworld" Anita Silvers; authenticity and art Theodore Gracyk; B; Barthes, Roland Mary Bittner Wiseman; Baumgarten, Alexander G(ottlieb) Nicholas Davey; Beardsley, Monroe C(urtis) Donald Callen; beauty Mary Mothersill
- Bell, (Arthur) Clive (Heward) Mary Mothersill; Benjamin, Walter Martin Donougho; Burke, Edmund Patrick Gardiner; C; canon Stein Haugom Olsen; catharsis Stephen Halliwell; Cavell, Stanley Timothy Gould; censorship Bernard Williams; Chinese aesthetics Marthe Chandler; cognitive science and art William P. Seeley; cognitive value of art Matthew Kieran; Collingwood, R(obin) G(eorge) Michael Krausz; comedy Noël Carroll; conceptual art Peter Goldie; conservation and restoration David Carrier; creativity Berys Gaut
- critical monism and pluralism Robert Kraut; criticism Michael Weston; Croce, Benedetto Douglas R. Anderson; cultural appropriation James O. Young; D; Danto, Arthur C(oleman) david novitz & stephen davies; deconstruction Stuart Sim; definition of "art" Kathleen Stock; Deleuze, Gilles Nicholas Davey; depiction Katerina Bantinaki; Derrida, Jacques Mary Bittner Wiseman; Dewey, John Thomas M. Alexander; Dickie, George Noël Carroll; Dufrenne, Mikel Wojciech Chojna & Irena Kocol; E; emotion Malcolm Budd; erotic art and obscenity Matthew Kieran; evolution, art, and aesthetics Stephen Davies