Syllabus: contact info, texts, requirements, calendar
 
 

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)

Nelson Goodman, “Art and Inquiry,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 41 (1967-1968), pp. 5-19 (on JSTOR)

───, “How Buildings Mean,” Critical Inquiry, vol. 11 (1985), pp. 642-653 (on JSTOR)

───, “Words, Works, Worlds,” Erkenntnis, vol. 9 (1975), pp. 57-73 (on JSTOR)

John Hospers, “The Croce-Collingwood Theory of Art,” Philosophy, vol. 31 (1956), pp. 291-308 (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,” Critical Inquiry, vol. 11 (1984), pp. 246-277 (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, Aesthetic, chs. 1, 2, and 15 (on a handout)

David Hume, “The Standard of Taste” and sels. on beauty (on a handout)

Wassily Kandinsky, selections from Concerning the Spiritual in Art (on a handout)

Immanuel Kant, selections on the sublime from the Critique of Judgment (on a handout with selections from Burke)

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Falsity in their Ultramoral Sense” (on a handout)

Friedrich Schiller, selections from Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man (on a handout)

Leo Tolstoy, selections from What is Art? (on a handout)