Reflections on aesthetic judgment and other essays / Benjamin Tilghman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tilghman, Benjamin R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub. Ltd., c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Benjamin Tilghman has been a leading commentator on analytic philosophy for many years. This book brings together his most significant and influential work on aesthetics. Spanning a period of thirty years and covering topics in aesthetics from literature to painting, this collection traces the development of Tilghman's two principal themes - a rejection of philosophical theory as a way of resolving problems about art and the importance of the representation and presentation of human concerns in art.

Contents:

The literary work of art

Aesthetic descriptions and secondary senses

Danto and the ontology of literature

Understanding people and understanding art

Picture space and moral space

Reflections on aesthetic theory

Literature, philosophy and nonsense

Charles le Brun, theory, philosophy and irony

Architecture, expression and the understanding of a culture

Perspective, painting and the look of the world

A conceptual dimension of art history

Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams

Literature, human understanding and morality

Reflections on aesthetic judgment.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-351-15060-X

0-85208-932-5

1-138-62031-9

1-351-15058-8

1-281-09802-7

9786611098025

0-7546-8268-4

9781351150606

OCLC:

437113709