Art and Imagination: A Study in the Philosophy of MindSt. Augustine's Press, 1998 - 256 pages This book presents a theory of aesthetic judgment and appreciation in the spirit of modern empiricism. There are three parts: the first deals with questions of philosophical logic, the second with questions in the philosophy of mind, and the third with questions in the philosophy of art. Thus the argument advances from a theory of aesthetic judgment (and in particular of "aesthetic description"), to a theory of aesthetic appreciation, and thence to an account of the nature and value of art. |
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Page 102
... look ( sound , smell etc. ) of something . Suppose I begin to think of the way my grand- mother looked . I say to myself : ' Let me think . . . she usually wore blue , her hair was grey , she had a funny way of peering down her nose ...
... look ( sound , smell etc. ) of something . Suppose I begin to think of the way my grand- mother looked . I say to myself : ' Let me think . . . she usually wore blue , her hair was grey , she had a funny way of peering down her nose ...
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... look of something . But to base one's theory of aesthetic interest on these cases alone is to risk making nonsense of the appreciation of literature . Indeed , any attempt to define aesthetic appreciation in sensuous terms will fail to ...
... look of something . But to base one's theory of aesthetic interest on these cases alone is to risk making nonsense of the appreciation of literature . Indeed , any attempt to define aesthetic appreciation in sensuous terms will fail to ...
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... look like what they can be seen as , and the extent to which they do this is a matter of degree . One duck actually looks like another , a decoy duck looks very similar , a naturalistic life - size colour photograph of a duck is also ...
... look like what they can be seen as , and the extent to which they do this is a matter of degree . One duck actually looks like another , a decoy duck looks very similar , a naturalistic life - size colour photograph of a duck is also ...
Contents
The Individuality of the Aesthetic Object | 15 |
Aesthetic Perception | 29 |
Recognition and Response | 71 |
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