What Does ‘Art’ Mean Now?

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I: Theory
	1 Esthetics Beyond Esthetics: The Demise of the Separated Artwork
	2 A Definition of Art for Our Times: Personal Impersonal/ Impersonal Personal
	3 Correcting Modernism: Putting the Subjective Back In
	4 Nailing the Problem a Century Ago: Dewey’s Art as Experience
	5 Our Situation Now: Blurring the Line Between Art and the World
Part II: Museums
	6 Audience and Survival: Two Aspects That Define Art
	7 Principles of Ordering the Separated Artwork: Museums and Collections
	8 Unconventional Ordering: Ripley’s “Believe it—OR NOT!”
	9 What Counts as an Artwork: The Small Hard Things of the Bactrian Hoard
	10 Do Museums Come to Life at Night?: The Revenge of the Separated Work
Part III: Literature
	11 What’s Literature Good For?: Mirroring/Escape and Explanation/Vaccination
	12 It Isn’t Fake Anything: Literature and the World
	13 Problems with Literature
		Who’s the Work For?
		What Does the Audience Know?
		Inside/Outside: Villette
		When We Just Don’t Like a Work
Works Cited
Index