The British Journal of Aesthetics articles from October 1997

The British Journal of Aesthetics archives from October 1997

R.W. Beardsmore, 1944-1997. (philosopher, University of Wales)(Obituary)
October 1, 1997... Apart from visiting appointments at the Universities of Texas and Mississippi, Dick Beardsmore spent his entire career in the University of Wales where he was first an undergraduate and then a postgraduate. He was a product of Welsh...

Experiments, nature and aesthetic experience in the eighteenth century.
October 1, 1997... It is a standard claim in the history of aesthetics that one of the innovations of the eighteenth century, besides the establishment of the discipline of aesthetics itself, was the discovery of nature as an object of aesthetic experience. In...

Performing compositions. (classical music)
October 1, 1997... ... the basic reality of music is not works [i.e. compositions] nor the composition of works but music-making, and... the composition of works is principally for the sake of enhancing a society's music-making. Nicholas...

Non-depicted content and pictorial ambition.
October 1, 1997... Artists devoted to depiction, and even to naturalism, have frequently sought to endow their work with content over and above what it depicts -- not only to depict a lovely young woman but to represent the transience of youth; not only to...

Meaning in dance.
October 1, 1997... I There is some ambiguity about any unqualified enquiry concerning the meaning of dance. In the first place, it could be seeking a kind of sociological or anthropological account of the role of dance in human affairs; as such, it...

Anyone for ekphrasis? (poetry on visual artworks)
October 1, 1997... It is A rhetorical game played by poets and a spectator sport for the reader who is invited to do what, in an analogous context, Ryle said was impossible -- to `attend twice at once'.(2) Playing the game involves writing a poem about a...

Criticism and the meanings of 'theory.'
October 1, 1997... When Paul de Man was asked by the Committee on the Research Activities of the MLA to write a piece on theory for an introduction to scholarship, he confessed that `the main theoretical interest of literary theory consists in the...

Danto's new definition of art and the problem of art theories. (Arthur Danto)
October 1, 1997... Arthur Danto's interesting new book After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History continues his exciting explorations of the relation of the concept of art to the evolution of art history and art theory.(1) In this brief...

The correct and the appropriate in the appreciation of nature.
October 1, 1997... I am walking along a country road and come across a cluster of lady's slippers -- one of my favourite wild flowers -- in the adjacent woods. I admire their unusual bulbous shape, their brilliant yellow. I enjoy the sight of them more because...

Schonberg's thought and the theory of music.
October 1, 1997... A basic experience of human life is the need to cope with the flight of time. So many things around us are not immobile objects but constantly evolving events, and our very capacity to comprehend builds in succession. Some of our aesthetic...

Wagner.
October 1, 1997... The writing of a fairly short book on the whole of a great artist's oeuvre, with the intention of sharing enthusiasm and applying intelligent argument to the elucidation of evident difficulties, is now rare, and welcome. Wagner's life and...

Kant After Duchamp.
October 1, 1997... This is both an ambitious and deeply flawed book. It seeks to reinterpret artistic modernism and its aftermath on the basis of a searching reading of Duchamp and an extremely ingenious approach to Kant's aesthetics and moral philosophy. It...

Interpreting Popular Music.
October 1, 1997... There are established, if competing, approaches to the academic study of Western art music. The very complexity of the music apparently allows it to carry the burden of a variety of musicological, analytic, and semiotic approaches. In the...

Cunning Passages: New Historicism, Cultural Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary Literary Debate.
October 1, 1997... Despite the apparent demise of Marxism in the past fifteen years, and the proclamations by various apologists for capitalism that history has ended, the problems of historicity and the representation of history to which Marxism has attested...

The Aesthetic Attitude.
October 1, 1997... I suppose that just about every lover of art and beauty wants to draw some kind of fairly strong distinction between the heightened nature of aesthetic experience and the ordinariness of its `everyday' counterpart -- even such an...

Painting and the 'Journal' of Eugene Delacroix.
October 1, 1997... `I reopen in my memory a book in which many chapters are already closed, and I find delightful moments in it', wrote Delacroix in December 1856. The delightful moments prompted by revisiting the pages of his own Journal were to prove of...

Origins of Narrative.
October 1, 1997... Stephen Prickett specializes in the relationship between the Bible and Literary Theory. Many theologians do this, but Prickett is unusual, being Professor of English at Glasgow University. Receiving great acclaim for Words and The Word in...

Outing Goethe and His Age.
October 1, 1997... This volume has its origins in a session of four speakers at the MLA Conference in i992. Seven further contributors have been found for Outing Goethe and His Age, whose editor, Alice A Kuzniar, also provides an introduction to the collection...

Stylistics: Rethinking the Artforms After Hegel.
October 1, 1997... Hegel divides his Aesthetics up into a consideration of the ideal of fine art, a discussion of the three particular art forms which this ideal takes -- the symbolic, the classical, and tile romantic -- and a discussion of the individual...