Text:
Hofstadter & Kuhns (eds.), Philosophies of Art & Beauty (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964).
On line:
Arthur Danto, “The Artworld,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 61 (1964), pp. 571-584 (on JSTOR)
───, “Art, Evolution, and the Consciousness of History,” The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 44 (1986), pp. 223-233 (on JSTOR)
───, “Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art,” Art Journal, vol. 63 (2004), pp. 24-35 (on JSTOR)
W. B. Gallie, “Art as an Essentially Contested Concept,” The Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 6 (1956), pp. 97-114 (on JSTOR)
───, “Essentially Contested Concepts,” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, n. s. vol. 56 (1955-56), pp. 167-198 (on JSTOR)
Ernst Gombrich, “How to Read a Painting,” The Saturday Evening Post, no. 234 (1961), pp. 20-21, 64-65 (on EBSCO)
Nelson Goodman, “Art and Inquiry,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 41 (1967-1968), pp. 5-19 (on JSTOR)
───, “Words, Works, Worlds,” Erkenntnis, vol. 9 (1975), pp. 57-73 (on JSTOR)
Kendall Walton, “Fearing Fictions,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 75 (1978), pp. 5-27 (on JSTOR)
───, “Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism,” Noûs, vol. 18 (1984), pp. 67-72 (on JSTOR)
Handouts:
Cive Bell, Art, ch. I, §I and sel. from §III (on a handout)
Edward Bullough, selections from “‘Psychical Distance’ As a Factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle,” The British Journal of Psychology, vol. 5 (1912), pp. 87-118. (on a handout)
Edmund Burke, selections from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (on a handout with selections from Kant)
Benedetto Croce, selections from Aesthetic As Science of Expression and General Linguistic (on a handout)
David Hume, “The Standard of Taste” and sels. on beauty (on a handout)
Immanuel Kant, selections on the sublime from the Critique of Judgment (on a handout with selections from Burke)
Friedrich Schiller, selections from Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man (on a handout)