Noël Carroll, “The Ontology of Mass Art,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 55 (1997), pp. 187-199 (on JSTOR at 431263)

Arthur Danto, “The Artworld,” The Journal of Philosophy, vol. 61 (1964), pp. 571-584 (on JSTOR at 2022937)

───, “Kalliphobia in Contemporary Art,” Art Journal, vol. 63 (2004), pp. 24-35 (on JSTOR at 4134518)

Nelson Goodman, “Art and Inquiry,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, vol. 41 (1967-1968), pp. 5-19 (on JSTOR at 3129263)

Kendall Walton, “Listening with Imagination: Is Music Representational?” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 52 (1994), pp. 47-61 (on JSTOR at 431584)

───, “Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism,” Critical Inquiry, vol. 11 (1984), pp. 246-277 (on JSTOR at 1343394)

Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” Harry Zohn, tr. (available on the website Marxists.org)

Clement Greenberg, “Avant-Garde and Kitsch,” (available on a website maintained by Terry Fenton)

Edmund Burke, selections from A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (screen PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Benedetto Croce, Aesthetic, chs. 1, 2, and 15, sels. (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

David Hume, “The Standard of Taste” and sels. on beauty (screen PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Immanuel Kant, selections on the sublime from the Critique of Judgment (screen PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lie in the Non-moral Sense” (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Friedrich Schiller, selections from Letters on the Aesthetical Education of Man (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Leo Tolstoy, selections from What is Art? (1up PDF, 2up PDF, booklet PDF)

Fuller contexts for many of these selections can be found in HTML format on the course Canvas site.