Art in Three Dimensions

Contents......Page 8
Art in Three Dimensions: An Introduction......Page 10
PART I. ART......Page 26
1. The Descent of Art......Page 28
2. Formalism......Page 41
3. Definitions of Art......Page 51
4. Art, Creativity, and Tradition......Page 62
PART II. AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE......Page 84
5. Aesthetic Experience: A Question of Content......Page 86
6. Non-Perceptual Aesthetic Properties: Comments for James Shelley......Page 118
7. Aesthetic Experience, Art, and Artists......Page 128
PART III. ART AND VALUE......Page 150
8. Art and Alienation......Page 152
9. Art and Recollection......Page 172
10. Art and the Moral Realm......Page 184
11. The Wheel of Virtue: Art, Literature, and Moral Knowledge......Page 210
12. Art and Ethical Criticism: An Overview of Recent Directions of Research......Page 244
13. Politics and Aesthetics......Page 281
PART IV. ART AND AFFECT......Page 290
14. Art and Human Nature......Page 292
15. Art and Mood: Preliminary Notes and Conjectures......Page 310
16. On Some Affective Relations between Audiences and the Characters in Popular Fictions......Page 338
PART V. NARRATIVE AND HUMOR......Page 362
17. Narrative Closure......Page 364
18. Narrative and the Ethical Life......Page 382
19. Humor......Page 405
20. Two Comic Plots......Page 426
PART VI. THE ARTS......Page 450
21. Philosophy and Drama: Performance, Interpretation, and Intentionality......Page 452
22. Literary Realism, Recognition, and the Communication of Knowledge......Page 467
23. Dance, Imitation, and Representation......Page 482
24. Feeling Movement: Music and Dance......Page 498
25. Music, Mind, and Morality: Arousing the Body Politic......Page 520
A......Page 536
B......Page 537
C......Page 538
D......Page 539
F......Page 540
I......Page 541
L......Page 542
M......Page 543
N......Page 544
P......Page 545
S......Page 546
W......Page 547
Z......Page 548