Marvelous Images

On Values and the Arts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

Av Kendall Walton, University of Michigan) Walton, Kendall (Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy, Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy

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The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of issues concerning the arts. Walton introduces an innovative account of aesthetic value, and explores relations between aesthetic value and values of other kinds. His classic 'Categories of Art' is included, as is 'Transparent Pictures', his controversial account of what is special about photographs. A new essay investigates the fact that still pictures are still, although some of them depict motion. New postscripts have been added to several of the reprinted essays.

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Utgivningsdatum2008-04-24
Mått236 x 157 x 20 mm
Vikt519 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor272
FörlagOUP USA
ISBN9780195177947

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Kendall Walton turned to philosophy as an undergraduate at Berkeley, after considering a career in music. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1967, and has taught at the University of Michigan since then. His extensive writings on aesthetics include the groundbreaking, Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.

INTRODUCTIONPART I: AESTHETIC AND MORAL VALUES1: How Marvelous: Toward a Theory of Aesthetic ValuePostscripts to "How Marvelous!"2: The Test of Time3: Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality4: On the (So-Called) Puzzle of Imaginative ResistancePART II: PICTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHS5: Pictures & Hobby Horses: Make-Believe Beyond Childhood6: Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic RealismPostscripts to "Transparent Pictures"7: On Pictures & Photographs: Objections Answered8: Seeing In and Seeing Fictionally9: Depiction, Perception, & Imagination: Responses to Richard Wollheim10: Experiencing Still Photographs: What Do You See and How Long Do You See It?PART III: CATEGORIES AND STYLES11: Categories of Art12: Style and the Products and Processes of Art

The collection is indeed a joy to read... Each essay gives the tangible impression hearing an outstanding philosopher in direct engagement with the issues... For all the freshness and directness of style, there is an extraordinary level of subtle nuance and fine distinction... It is a principal conclusion of the opening chapter, which gives the collection its title, that a distinctive mark of aesthetic pleasure is the fact we take pleasure, not just in the object itself, but also in our admiration for the object. Just such a pleasure will be occasioned by this admirable volume. Marvelous indeed.