The British Journal of Aesthetics articles from January 1997

The British Journal of Aesthetics archives from January 1997

Erratum. (correction to 'Goodman's rejection of resemblance' in October 1996 issue)
January 1, 1997... Craig Files, `Goodman's Rejection of Resemblance', British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 36, Number 4, October 1996, pp. 398-412. Due to a printing error, which the Editor regrets, the middle sentence in the first paragraph of this paper...

Two kinds of artistic duplication.
January 1, 1997... In this paper I juxtapose two well-known thought-experiments concerning duplicate art works, and point out that they appear to have directly conflicting results. I then make a proposal as to how to reconcile the two cases. I....

Irrecoverable intentions and literary interpretation.
January 1, 1997... The objective of this paper is to explore the relevance of irrecoverable authorial intentions to the interpretation of texts, especially literary texts. By `irrecoverable authorial intentions' I mean intentions of an author which cannot be...

Meaning and the art-status of 'music alone.'
January 1, 1997... Peter Kivy has recently argued that music `without text, title, program, or plot'(1) (FAR, p. 361)--revealingly called `music alone'--is not an artform in the traditional sense, i.e. not a fine art, but only a decorative art. By contrast, for...

On the aesthetic appreciation of Japanese gardens.
January 1, 1997... There are different kinds of Japanese gardens with different features, styles and designs that, accordingly, present different issues concerning aesthetic appreciation. In this essay I focus primarily on certain types of gardens and only on one...

Defining art responsibly.
January 1, 1997... I am persuaded by a version of the institutional theory of art which states that something is a work of art if and only if members of an artworld confer arthood upon it. My trouble is that I am horrified by what some members of an artworld have...

Hearing musical works in their entirety.
January 1, 1997... The paradox that I want to explore in this paper can be simply stated: our ability to grasp any piece of music as a perceptual whole, and consequently as an aesthetic one, seems frustrated at every turn by the temporality of its object. Thus,...

Aesthetics vs. ideology: the case of canon formation. (response to Willie van Peer, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 36, p. 97)
January 1, 1997... I In his fascinating and highly stimulating paper on the issue of canon formation,[1] Willie van Peer questions the currently fashionable tendency to view the literary canon exclusively in `political'[2] terms. According to the author,...

Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry and Music.
January 1, 1997... By MALCOLM BUDD. The Penguin Press. 1995. pp. 213. 20.00 [pounds sterling]. There are few more tantalizingly elusive questions in aesthetics than that concerning the values of art. It is one thing to enquire, in an empirical spirit, into the...

Arte e Cognizione: Introduzione alla Psycologia dell'Arte.
January 1, 1997... By ALBERTO ARGENTON. Cortina. 1996. pp. 350. Although Argenton's book on art and cognition is written as a mere introduction to the psychology of art, it is of interest to those familiar with the field. Argenton, who teaches art psychology...

Prismatic Thought. Theodor W. Adorno.
January 1, 1997... By PETER UWE HOHENDAHL. University of Nebraska Press. 1995. pp. 287. 38.00 [pounds sterling]. Adorno's philosophical aesthetics has thus far been unevenly received in the English-speaking world. The only existing English translation of...

Classical Music and Postmodern Knowledge.
January 1, 1997... By LAWRENCE KRAMER. University of California Press. 1995. pp. 297. 27.00 [pounds sterling]. Lawrence Kramer is a specialist in nineteenth century culture. Indeed, his earlier book dealing with that period, Music as Cultural Practice...

Nietzsche and Schiller: Untimely Aesthetics.
January 1, 1997... By NICHOLAS MARTIN. Clarendon Press. 1996. pp. 219. 30 [pounds sterling]. Nietzsche's The Birth qf Tragedy and Schiller's Letters On The Aesthetic Education of Man are known in the field of aesthetics as supreme and foundational works. Both...

Combative Styles: Romantic Writing and Ideology: Two Contrasting Interpretations.
January 1, 1997... By BRUCE WOODCOCK and JOHN OATES The University of Hull Press. pp. 151. No price given. There are Paine and Blake on the one hand, and Burke and De Quincey on the other. And there is Bruce Woodcock on one side and John Coates on the other....

Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema.
January 1, 1997... By MURRAY SMITH. Clarendon Press. 1995. pp. x + 265. 35.00 [pounds sterling] hardback; 13.99 [pounds sterling] paperback. In this welcome and important book, Murray Smith discusses the nature of our responses to fictional characters in film....

Spirits Hovering Over the Ashes: Legacies of Postmodern Theory.
January 1, 1997... By H. L. HIX. State University of New York Press. 1995. $16.95. In 1961, Peter Beagle published A Fine and Private Place, his first novel. It was a charming and melancholic, if slightly pretentious, story of the ghost of a historian, buried...

Aesthetic Value.
January 1, 1997... By ALAN GOLDMAN. Westview Press. 1995. pp. ix + 198. 29.50 [pounds sterling] hardback; 10.95 [pounds sterling] paperback. An illuminating way of presenting the issues of value is through the divide between realism and non-realism. The most...

Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition: A Reading of Five Problem Plays.
January 1, 1997... By JEAN-PIERRE MAQUERLOT. Cambridge University Press. 1995. pp. 197. 9 illus. 35.00 [pounds sterling]. Renaissance critics were fond of making comparisons between painting and poetry, and the use of analogies and metaphors drawn from...

Art and the Committed Eye. The Cultural Functions of Imagery.
January 1, 1997... By RICHARD LEPPERT. Westview Press. 1996. pp. 348. 48-50 [pounds sterling] hardback; 16.00 [pounds sterling] paperback. It is, by now, labouring the obvious to state that the undergraduate art history degree in Britain is changing. In part...