The British Journal of Aesthetics articles from April 1998

The British Journal of Aesthetics archives from April 1998

Natural beauty and morality. (philosopher Immanuel Kant)(Delight in the Natural World: Kant on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature, part 2)
April 1, 1998... I Kant maintains not only that the pleasure expressed in a pure judgement of taste is not an interest, i.e. the determining ground of the judgement is a disinterested pleasure, but that such a judgement is not inherently interesting,...

Wollheim's dilemma. (Richard Wollheim, institutional theory of art)
April 1, 1998... I turn very belatedly to an argument that Richard Wollheim in 1980(1) set out against the institutional theory of art as it was presented in my Art and the Aesthetic in 1974.(2) I do so at this late date because philosophers continue to refer...

Imagination and the content of fiction.
April 1, 1998... In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be ...

Moderate autonomism. (relationship between moral and aesthetic value)
April 1, 1998... I. INTRODUCTION It is not uncommon to find oneself with a conflict between one's aesthetic interests and one's moral convictions. Suppose, for example, that you have been persuaded that The Merchant of Venice is not meant for tragedy,...

Tom Sawyer and the beige unicorn. (reference to fictional or non-existent entities)
April 1, 1998... I To present the currently prevalent view, the view I wish to dispute, let me use the lucid formulation of Gareth Evans. Evans says that there are demonstratives and proper names--he calls them `Russellian Singular Terms'--`whose sense...

Valuing nature and the autonomy of natural aesthetics.
April 1, 1998... There is a view which distinguishes between the aesthetic appreciation of artefacts and that of nature going back at least as far as Burke.(1) Whether this involves a concession regarding the hard ontological difference between human artifice...

Lukacs and realism after Marx. (Georg Lukacs, contemporary literary realism, Karl Marx)
April 1, 1998... The purpose of this paper is to explore the following question. What, if anything, can be retained of Lukacs's defence of literary realism if we suppose (as there is reason to) that the Marxist theory to which it was so closely allied is no...

Reading with Feeling: The Aesthetics of Appreciation.
April 1, 1998... By SUSAN L. FEAGAN. Cornell U.P. 1996. pp. 260. 27.50 [pounds sterling]. This is a well-researched, clearly written, closely argued book by someone who has thought hard about her sophisticated responses to fiction. Her topic is its...

Bela Bartok: Composition, Concepts and Autograph Sources.
April 1, 1998... By LASZLO SOMFAI. University of California Press. PP. 334. 48.00 [pounds sterling] By now, Bartok is recognized as one of the most significant figures in the rise of musical modernism, ranking alongside Debussy, Stravinsky, and Schoenberg as...

Artifice and Illusion: The Art and Writing of Sammuel van Hoogstraten.
April 1, 1998... By CELESTE BRUSATI. University of Chicago Press. 1995. 401 pp. 59.95 [pounds sterling]. In the present state of studies on Dutch seventeenth-century painting, Svetlana, Alpers's book, The Art of Describing, published in 1983, has become a...

The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-century Aesthetic Theory.
April 1, 1998... By ANDREW ASHFIELD AND PETER DE BOLLA (eds). Cambridge U.R 1996. pp. ix + 314. 13.95 [pounds sterling]. This book is an anthology of extracts from British primary source texts dealing with the notion of the sublime. There are fifty extracts...

Annals for Aesthetics, vol 34, Aesthetics in Education, Culture and Tradition.
April 1, 1998... By The Panayotis and Effie Michelis Foundation in collaboration with the Hellenic Society for Aesthetics. 1995. 299 pp. No price given. The annals of the Symposium on Aesthetics in Education, Culture and Tradition, organized by the Hellenic...

Art Into Ideas: Essays on Conceptual Art.
April 1, 1998... By ROBERT C. MORGAN Cambridge U.P., 1996. pp. 218. 12.95 [pounds sterling]. It is nearly thirty years since Lucy Lippard and John Chandler published a leading article entitled `The Dematerialization of Art', in which they addressed a...

Adorno, Modernism and Mass Culture: essays on Critical Theory and Music.
April 1, 1998... By MAX PADDISON. Kahn & Averill. 1996. pp. 149. 12.95 [pounds sterling]. This collection of essays is an important adjunct to Max Paddison's splendid 1993 study, Adorno's Aesthetic of Music (Cambridge U.P.). Indeed, it is also a testament to...

The Split and the Structure: Twenty Eight Essays.
April 1, 1998... By RUDOLF ARNHEIM. University of California Press. 1996. pp. 184. $14-95. Almost all of these short essays have appeared before in diverse journals and collections; the majority appeared in the last few years but a few are from the eighties...

Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art After Babel.
April 1, 1998... By GARY SHAPIRO. University of CalifoRnia Press. 1995. pp. 259.28 [pounds sterling]. Robert Smithson is becoming recognized as one of the most important figures in American art and anti-art since the 1950s. At the same time, the discipline...

From Romanticism to Critical Theory: the Philosophy of German Literary Theory.
April 1, 1998... By ANDREW BOWIE. Routledge. 1977. pp. 346. 13.99 [pounds sterling]. If, in the postmodern world turned upside-down, the walls separating the literary from the philosophical have really tumbled, the contemporary reader could be forgiven for...