A modern book of esthetics : an anthology / edited with introduction and notes by Melvin Rader.
| Author/creator | Rader, Melvin editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | Fourth edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, ©1973. |
| Description | viii, 568 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : the meaning of art -- Part I. The creative process. Imitation and imagination -- Beauty and imitation / Jacques Maritain -- Truth and the stereotype / E.H. Gombrich -- Expression of emotion -- Art as the expression of emotion / Eugene Veron -- The communication of emotion / Leo Tolstoy -- Art and the language of the emotions / C.J. Ducasse -- Intuition-expression -- Intuition and expression / Benedetto Croce -- Art as expression / R.G. Collingwood -- Imaginative satisfaction of desire -- Apollinian and Dionysian art / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Wish-fulfillment and the unconscious / Sigmund Freud -- Poetry's dream work / Christopher Caudwell -- Enhancement of experience -- Having an experience / John Dewey -- The experience of vivid values / Alfred North Whitehead -- Embodiment of values -- The nature of beauty / George Santayana -- Values, feeling, and embodiment / Louis Arnaud Reid -- Part II. The work of art. The medium and sensory constituents -- The esthetic attitude in its embodiments / Bernard Bosanquet -- Seeing photographically / Edward Weston -- Sensuous elements and esthetic orders / David Wight Prall -- Form -- Significant form / Clive Bell -- Poetry for poetry's sake / DeWitt H. Parker -- Structure and organization / Horatio Greenough -- Style / Meyer Schapiro -- Expressiveness -- Expressiveness and symbolism / Susanne K. Langer -- The composer and his message / Roger Sessions -- The expressiveness of visual forms / Rudolf Arnheim -- The film and the new psychology / Maurice Merleau-Ponty -- The quality of feeling in art / Harold Osborne -- Part III. The response to the esthetic object. The experience of the beholder -- Empathy / Vernon Lee -- Abstraction and empathy / Wilhelm Worringer -- Psychical distance / Edward Bullough -- The naked and the nude / Kenneth Clark -- The esthetic attitude / John Hospers -- The response of the critic -- The work of art and the artist's intentions / John Kemp -- The whole and the parts / Lucien Goldmann -- In defense of the unintelligible / George Boas -- Counter-avant-garde / Clement Greenberg -- On the generality of critical reasons / Monroe C. Beardsley -- Contextualistic criticism / Stephen C. Pepper -- The response of the community -- Estethic play and human liberation / Friedrich Schiller -- Art and history / Karl Marx -- Economic base and artistic superstructure / Max Raphael -- Design with nature / Ian McHarg -- Postscript : esthetic theory -- Games and definitions / Ludwig Wittgenstein -- The role of theory in esthetics / Morris Weitz -- Family resemblances and generalization concerning the arts / Maurice Mandelbaum. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 535-560) and index. |
| LCCN | 72086536 |
| ISBN | 0030017564 |