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The following is a list of some of the more important works in the history of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. ARISTOTLE. Poetics, in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric,

Demetrius on Style, Longinus on the Sublime, trans. with introd. by T. A. Moxon (J. M. Dent & Sons, London; E. P. Dutton, New York, 1953. Everyman's Library, No. 901).

BELL, CLIVE. Art (Chatto & Windus, London, 1914; G. P. Putnam, New York, 1959).

--- Since Cezanne ( Chatto & Windus, London, 1922).

BURKE, EDMUND. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Ori­gin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful, Ed. with introd. and notes by J. T. Boulton (Rout­ledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1958).

COLLINGWOOD, R. c. Outlines of a Philosophy of Art (Oxford University Press, London, 1925).

-- Principles of Art (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1938). CROCE, BENEDETTO. Aesthetics, trans. by Douglas Ains­

lie, 2nd ed. (Macmillan, London, 1922) . DUFRENNE, MIKEL. Phenomenologie de l' experience

esthetique (Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, 1953),

220 AESTHETICS: AN INTRODUCTION

FRY, ROGER. Vision and Design (Chatto & Windus, Lon­don, 1920; Meridian World Publishers, New York, 1956).

GOMBRICB, E. B. Art and Illusion ( Phaidon Press, Lon­don, 1962).

-- Meditations on a Hobby Horse (Phaidon Press, London, 1963).

HEGEL, G. w. F. Philosophy of Fine Art, trans. with notes by F. P. B. Osmanton (G. Bell & Sons, London, 1920).

BUME, DAVID. "Of the Standard of Taste," in Essays Moral, Political and Literary (Oxford University Press, London, 1963).

KANT, IMMANUEL. Critique of Judgement, trans. with analytical indexes by James Creed Meredith (Claren­don Press, Oxford, 1952).

LONGINUS. On the Sublime, in Aristotle's Poetics and Rhetoric, Demetrius on Style, Longinus on the Sub­lime, trans. with introd. by T. A. Moxon (J. M. Dent & Sons, London; E. P. Dutton, New York, 1953. Everyman's Library, No. 901).

PLATO. The Symposium, Hippias Mafor, The Phaedrus, trans. by Benjamin Jowett, 4th ed. (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1953).

-- The Republic, Books II, III and X, trans. F. M. Cornford (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1941).

RICHARDS, I. A. Principles of Literary Criticism (Rout­ledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1960, reissue; Har­court, Brace, & World, New York, 1968).

SARTRE, JEAN-PAUL. Literature and Existentialism, trans. by Bernard Frechtman (Citadel Press, New York, 1966).

TOLSTOY, LEO. What Is Art? trans. by Aylmer Maude (Oxford University Press, London, 1930. World's Classics).

VINCI, LEONARDO nA. Treatise on Painting, trans. and

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annotated by A. Philip McMahon, with an introd. by Ludwig H. Heydenreich (Princeton University Press, 1956).

--- Paragone: A Comparison of the Arts, introd. and trans. by Irma A. Richter (Oxford University Press, London, 1949).

WITTGENSTEIN, LUDWIG. Lectures and Conversations on Aesthetics, Psychology, and Religious Belief, Ed. by Cyril Barrett (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1966; Uni­versity of California Press, Berkeley, 1967).

Listed below is a brief selection of recent books, articles, and collections of papers on aesthetics and art theory. It includes certain works of criticism that bear on prob­lems in aesthetics.

BOOKS

BEARDSLEY, M. c. Aesthetics (Harcourt, Brace, & World, New York, 1958).

BROOKS, CLEANTH. The Well Wrought Urn (Dobson, London, 1960; Harcourt, Brace, & World, New York, 1956).

CASEY, JOHN. The Language of Criticism (Methuen, London, 1966; Barnes & Noble, New York, 1966).

CHARLTON, WILLIAM. Aesthetics: An Introduction (Hutchinson University Library, London, 1970).

ELIOT, T. s. The Sacred Wood (Methuen, London, 1934; Barnes & Noble, New York, 1950).

--On Poetry and Poets (Faber and Faber, London, 1957; Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 1957).

-- The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism (Barnes & Noble, New York, 1933; Faber and Faber, London, 1955).

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EMPSON, WILLIAM. Seven Types of Ambiguity (Chatto & Windus, London, 1930; Meridian, New York, 1955).

GOODMAN, NELSON. Languages of Art (Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1968; Oxford University Press, London, 1969}.

HOSPERS, JOHN. Meaning and Truth in the Arts (Uni­versity of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1946).

-- Introductory Readings in Aesthetics (Macmillan, New York, 1969}.

LEAVIS, F. R. The Common Pursuit (Chatto & Windus, London, 1958; New York University Press, New York, 1964).

--- The Great Tradition ( Chatto & Windus, London, 1955; New York University Press, New York, 1963).

LEAVIS, F. R., compiler. Revaluation: A Selection from Scrutiny (W. W. Norton, New York, 1963; Cam­bridge University Press, Cambridge, 1968).

LISTOWEL, EARL OF. Critical History of Modern Aes­thetics (Allen & Unwin, London, 1933).

MARGOLIS, JOSEPH. The Language of Art and Art Criti­cism (Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1965).

OSBORNE, HAROLD. Aesthetics and Criticism (Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1955).

-- Aesthetics and Art Theory (Longmans, Green, London, 1968; E. P. Dutton, New York, 1970).

READ, srn HERBERT. The Meaning of Art (Pelican Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1950).

-- Selected Writings, foreword by Allen Tate (Faber and Faber, London, 1963; Horizon Press, New York, 1964).

VALERY, PAUL. The Art of Poetry, Vol. 7 of the Col­lected Works, Ed. by Jackson Mathews, trans. by Denise Folliot, with an introd. by T. S. Eliot (Rout­ledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1957; Random House, New York, 1961).

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WEITZ, MORRIS. Philosophy of the Arts (Harvard Uni­versity Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1950).

wn.soN, EDMUND. Axers Castle (Scribner, New York, 1953; Collins, London, 1961).

-- The Triple Thinkers (Oxford University Press, New York, 1948; Lehmann, London, 1952).

WOLLIIEIM, RICHARD. Art and Its Objects: An Introduc­tion to Aesthetics (Harper & Row, New York, 1968).

COLLECTIONS OF ARTICLES ON AESTHETICS BARRETT, CYRIL, Ed. Collected Papers on Aesthetics

(Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1965; Barnes & Noble, New York, 1966).

ELTON, WTI..LIAM, Ed. Aesthetics and Language (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954).

BOOK, SIDNEY, Ed. Art and Philosophy (New York Uni­versity Press, New York, 1966).

MARGOLIS, JOSEPH, Ed. Philosophy Looks at the Arts, (Scribner, New York, 1962).

osBORNE, HAROLD. Aesthetics in the Modern World (Allen & Unwin, London, 1968).

PHILIPSON, MORRIS, Ed. Aesthetics To-day (World Publishing Co., Cleveland and New York, 1961).

SESONSKE, ALEXANDER, Ed. What Is Art? Aesthetic Theory from Plato to Tolstoy (Oxford University Press, New York, 1965).

WEITZ, MORRIS, Ed. Problems in Aesthetics (Macmil­lan, New York, 1959).

WIMSATT, WILLIAM KURTZ, Ed. The Verbal Icon (Uni­versity of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 1954).

ARTICLES (Some of the articles listed below are to be found in one or more of the collections mentioned in the previous sec­tion. The references given below are to the original source.)

224 AESTHETICS: AN INTRODUGnON

BOUWSMA, o. K. "The Expression Theory of Art," in Max Black, Ed., Philosophical Analysis (Cornell Uni­versity Press, Ithaca, 1950).

GALLIE, w. B. "Essentially Contested Concepts," Pro­ceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Vol. LVI, 1955-56.

-- "Art as Essentially Contested Concept," Philo­sophical Quarterly, Vol. 6, 1956.

HAMPSHIRE, STUART. "Logic and Appreciation," World Review, 1952.

HOSPERS, JOHN. "The Concept of Artistic Expression," in Morris Weitz, Ed., Problems in Aesthetics (Macmil­lan, New York, 1959).

MACDONALD, MARGARET. "Some Distinctive Features of Arguments Used in Criticism of the Arts," Proceed­ings of the Aristotelian Society, Supplementary Vol. XXIII, 1949·

-- "Art and Imagination," Proceedings of the Aris­totelian Society, Vol. LIII, 1952-53.

MARGOLIS, JOSEPH. "The Identity of a Work of Art," Mind, New Series, Vol. LXVIII, 1959.

SAW, RUTH LYDIA, and HAROLD OSBORNE. "Aesthetics as a Branch of Philosophy," British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 1, 1960.

SCHAPIRO, MEYER. "On Perfection, Coherence and Unity of Form and Content," in Sidney Hook, Ed., Art and Philosophy (New York University Press, New York, 1966).

SIBLEY, FRANK. "Aesthetic Concepts," Philosophical Re­view, Vol. LXVIII, 1959.

STEVENSON, c. L. "Interpretation and Evaluation in Aes­thetics," in Max Black, Ed., Philosophical Analysis (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 1950).

-- "On 'What Is a Poem?'," Philosophical Review, Vol. LXVI, 1957·

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STEVENSON, C. L. "On the 'Analysis' of a Work of Art," Philosophical Review, Vol. LXVII, 1958.

WIMSATT, W. K., and M. C. BEARDSLEY. "The Intentional Fallacy," in W. K. Wimsatt, Ed., The Verbal Icon (University of Kentucky Press, Lexington, 1954; originally published in The Sewanee Review, Swn­mer, 1946).

ZIFF, PAUL. "Art and the Object of Art," Mind, New Series, Vol. LX, 1951.

--"The Task of Defining a Work of Art," Philosophi­cal Review, Vol. LXII, 1953.

Index

Abraham, 116 Accidental qualities, 199,

200, 203 Aegisthus, 185 Aeneas, 138 Aeschylus, 81, 184 Aesthetics, British Society of,

12 Alhambra, 180 Ambiguity, 129 Althaea, 185 Architecture, 120-26 Architecture of Humanism,

The,67 Aristophanes, 81 Aristotle, So, 81, 88, 8g, 91,

103, 106-g, 199. 203 Art therapy, 118 Austen, Jane, 188 Austin, J. L., 20, 171, 172 Autonomy of aesthetics, 205 Autonomy of value, 206

Bach, Johann Sebastian, 114 "Bad books," good, 112 Baertling, Olle, 45 Basch, V., 6g

Baumgarten, A. G., 59, 6o Beatles, The, 114 Beecham, Sir Thomas, 44 Beeton, Mrs. J. M., 198 Bell, Clive, 27, 51, 53, 57,

58, 6o Bergson, Henri, 211 Bible, The, 116 Blacks, The, 63 Blake, Nicholas, So Blake, William, 70 Bloomsbury Set, 54 "Blue Boy,'' 201, 204 Bradbrook, Muriel, 171 Brandenburg Concerto, 185 Brecht, Bertolt, 63, 64 Breughel, Pieter, 166 Browning, Robert, 92 Brunius, Teddy, 45 Bullough, Edward, 61, 62,

173 Burke, Edmund, 74 Bume-Jones, Edward, 35

Caesar, Julius, 73 Caretaker, The, 133 Cassio, 212

228 AESTHETICS: AN INTRODUCTION

Chartres, 180 Chekhov, Anton, 44 Chevalley, A., 32 Christie, Agatha, So Churches, 122-23 Churchill, Sir Winston, 92 Cinderella, 26 Classical period, 126 Clark, Sir Kenneth, 71 Clytemnestra, 184 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 65 Collingwood, R. G., 143, 173 Concepts of aesthetics, 195-

97 Congo, 49 Conjuring, 64 Corelli, Marie, 113 Constable, John, 165 Constitutive principles, 186 Cranford, 98 Creative imagination, 119-

zo Critics, 198-99 Critique of Judgment, The,

6o Croce, Benedetto, 96, 143,

146, 201, 212 Cromwell, Oliver, 108 Cymbeline, 217

Darby and Joan, 116 David, 18 Day Lewis, Cecil, So "Dejeuner sur l'herbe," 212 "Derby Day," 35 Desdemona, 212 "Disappearance of the ob-

ject," 100 Disney, Walt, 138

Distance, 61-63, 71, 75 Dr. Zhivago, 113 "Dreariness of Aesthetics,

The," 173 Dying Swan, 44

Einfiihling, 66 ff. Einstein, Albert, 195 Elliott, R. K., 110 Elton, Mrs., 188 Emma, 188 Emotion aesthetic, 52 ff., 211 Empathy, 66 ff. Empson, William, 149, 155 Equality, 208

Equity, 99 Ethics, 12 Euclid, 105 Euripides, 81 Excellence, 95 Experience, aesthetic, 51 ff.,

169ff.

Feelings, 16, 17 Figaro, 44 Fish, Ronnie, 41 Florizel, 188 Forgery, 210

Forster, E. M., 32 Forsyte Saga, The, 113 Fountain, The, 113 Freshness, 93, 94 Frith, W. P., 35 Fry, Roger, 39, 58, 16o-61,

173

Gainsborough, Thomas, zoo, 204

Gaskell, Mrs., 189

Index zzg

Galsworthy, John, 113 Gastronomy, 71 "Gather ye rosebuds," 212 Genet, Jean, 63 Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

von, 180 Gombrich, E. H., 64, 148 ff.,

173 "Good books," bad, 113 Gratitude, 191, 216 Groos, Karl, 67 "Guernica," 212

Hamkt,26,43,64, 158,184 Hare, Harry, 138 Hegel, G. W. F., 126 ff., 176,

180 Herbin, Auguste, 46 Hierarchy of values, 209 Holmes, Sherlock, 154 Hopkin, Mary, 25 Housing estates, 122 Hulme, T. E., 56 Hume, David, 74, 172, 177

Illuminated manuscripts, 110 Illusion, 64 ff. Imagination, 119-20 Imitation, 103 Importance, 205 Introductions, 193

Jacob, 116 James, Henry, go, 91, 130,

131 Joad, C. E. M., 100 Judas, 138 Juliet, 116

Kant, Immanuel, 16, 6o, 171, 207

Keats, John, 114 Kelly, Ned, 135 Knightley, Mr., 188

"Language of the emotions," 155ff.

Laocoon, 72 Last Year in Marienbad, 170 Laughter, 211 Launderettes, 124 Lear, King, 31, 59, 62, 185 Lee, Vernon, 39, 66, 67 Leibniz, G. W. von, 19, 21 Lemnian massacre, The, 185 Lessing, G. E., 72 Libation Bearers, The, 184 "Light art," 112 Lipps, Theodor, 67 Living Theater, 88 Locke, John, 12 Logic, 12 Logic, symbolic, 19 Lolita, 113 Lorna Doone, 113 Lubbock, Percy, 36, 86

Machines, 132-33 Marx, Chico, 63 Marx, Groucho, 6o, 63 "Massacre of the Innocents,''

166 Mailiematics, 21 Meager, Ruby, 92 Meaning, 128 Meegeren, Hans van, 210 Mescaline, 101 Metaphysics, 12, 13

230 AESTIIETICS: AN INTRODUCTION

Michelangelo, 217 Middlemarch, 58 Midsummer Night's Dream,

A, 6z Miller, Jonathan, 129 Moore, G. E., 54 Moore, Henry, 49, 190 Milton, John, 187, 212 Moran, Lord, g6 Morgan, Charles, 113 Moscow Art Theater, 44 Mosques, 125

Nabokov, Nicolas, 44 Nabokov, Vladimir, 113 Na"ivete, 99 Nathan, 18 Naturalness, 187 Nature, 89 Newton, Sir Isaac, 47, 53,

195 Nolan, Sidney, 135 Nostalgia, 25, 70

Objectivity, 20 Odyssey, 40 Oedipus Rex, 40, Sg, go, 185 Ogilby, John, 187 Olivier, Laurence, 44, 64,

212 "Open form," 45 Opera, 112 Orestes, 184 Originality, 93-94 Osborne, Harold, 82 Othello, 212

Paddington Station, 35 Paradise Lost, 212

Pasternak, Boris, 113 Pater, Walter, 198 Pavlova, Anna, 44 Pearson, Karl, 135 Perdita, 188 Persons, 208 Pippa Passes, gz Plato, 55, 103, 106, 107,

114, 127, l-45, 173 Plotinus, 142 Picasso, Pablo, 165 Poetics, 55, 75 Politics, Sg Pope, Alexander, 109 Presents, 216, 217 Principles of Art, 173 Principles of Literary Criti-

cism, 56

Rachel, 117 Rembrandt, 39 Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 11, 14,

58, 72, 160, zoo, 204, 217 ff.

Richards, I. A., 27, 56, 57, 58, 6o, 6g

Romeo, 116 Rousseau, Henri ( "Le Doua­

nier"), 99 Royal Academy, 217

St. George and the Dragon, 129

Sarah, 116 Saul, 17 Scott, Geoffrey, 67-68 Sculpture, 126 Scylla, 185 Sartre, Jean-Paul, 215, 216

Index

"Seeing as," 151 Senses, higher and lower,

71-72, 73 Shakespeare, William, 43,

73, 82, 116, 119, 129, 150, 180, 210, 217-18

Shaw, George Bernard, 44 Shorter, Eric, 63 Simplicity, 187 Sincerity, 96 ff., 147 Smells, 70 Socrates, 173, 199 Sophocles, 81 Speculum Mentis, 173 Spoils of Poynton, The, go-

91 Spontaneity, 93 Standards, 88 Streeter, Fred, 213 Sublime, 74 Surprise, 94 Symmetry, 102 Sympathy, 74

Tempest, The, 211 Timon of Athens, 211

Tolerance, 14 Tolstoy, Leo, 36, 66, 115

Uniqueness, 92--93 Unity, organic, 77, 101

Uriah the Hittite, 18 "Use of art, the": architec­

ture, 120; entertainment, 110, 111; as therapy, 118, 120

Value: its autonomy, 206; in itself, 205; over-all prin­ciples, 207; hierarchy, .209

Van Gogh, Vincent, 166 "Venus de Milo," 82, 84 Vermeer, Jan, 210 Vinci, Leonardo da, 104-

5, 107 "Virgin of the Rocks," 40,

185

Wagner, Richard, 164 Waiting for Godot, 133 War in Heaven, 117 War and Peace, 36, 86, 185 Waves, The, 133 Wells, H. G., 119 What Is Literature?, 215 Williams, Charles, 117 Wings of a Dove, The, 130 Winter's Tale, The, 188 Wives and Daughters, 189 Wodehouse, P. G., 41, 136 Wordsworth, William, 68 Wotan, 129