The Structure of Aesthetics / F.E. Sparshott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparshott, F.E., author.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (487 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Professor Sparshott's book thus places the study of aesthetics on a new footing, since it becomes for the first time possible to grasp the scope of the subject as a whole.

Contents:

Cover; PREFACE; I. AESTHETICS: WHAT AND WHY?; Aesthetics Defined; Present Purposes; THE CASE AGAINST AESTHETICS; THE CASE FOR AESTHETICS; II. THE APPROACHES TO AESTHETICS; ASPECTS OF ART; The World; Society; The World of Art; The Artist; The Public; Works of Art; THE ARTS; TYPES OF INQUIRER; The Scientific Approach; The Approach from the Arts; The Philosophical Approach; THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SUBJECT; III. "BEAUTY": THE TERM AND ITS RELATIONS; THE CLASSICAL CONCEPT; Beauty and Perfection; Beauty and Function; Beauty and the Senses; THE SCALE OF PLEASING; The Beautiful and the Pretty

The Beautiful and the GracefulThe Beautiful and the Sublime; Sublimity; The Beautiful and the Pleasant; Unity and Variety; Novelty; A TECHNICAL SENSE OF "BEAUTY"; IV. ART AND NATURE; Isolation; Imitation and Creation; Completeness and Expressiveness; Style; Attention and Interpretation; V. ART: THE CONCEPT AND ITS VALIDITY; The Unity of the Arts; Art and the Arts; Defining Art; Affinities of Arts; The Status of the Concept; RELATIVITY; Generalizations; Hypothetical Universals; Spurious Universals; Prescriptive Universals; VI. ART: GRADES AND KINDS; THE GRADING OF ART; Art and Poesy

The Fine ArtsArt Proper; Art and Craft; Pure and Applied Art; TRADITIONS; Original and Academic; Metropolitan and Provincial; Esoteric and Popular; Primitive and Sophisticated; Conclusion; THE ARTS; Enumeration; Exclusion; Elimination; Classification; VII. ART: MODES AND GENRES; ATTITUDES; Tragic, Pathetic, Horrific; The Horrible; The Tragic; Pathos and Melancholy; Comedy, Wit, Humour; Irony and Satire; GENRES; Aristotelian Tragedy; The Essentials of Serious Drama; Comedy; APPROACHES; Abstraction and Empathy; Architectural, Romantic, Descriptive; Classical, Romantic, Realistic; SYNDROMES

The FactCorrelations; Doubts; Causes; Sequences; VIII. HAS ART A FUNCTION?; ART AS FUNCTIONLESS; Art and Pleasure; THE UTILITY OF USELESSNESS; Art and Play; Psychical Distance; Celebration; IX. ART AND THE INDIVIDUAL; SELF-EXPRESSION; The Creative Process; Aesthetic Duty; Genius or Everyman; Self-Knowledge; ART AND ADJUSTMENT; Empathy; Healing; ART AND INSIGHT; Metaphor; The Aesthetic Experience; X. ART AND SOCIETY; REFLECTION; Relativism Again; Abiding Values and Fluctuating Taste; Self-Knowledge; AMELIORATION; ART AND RELIGION; ART AND MORALITY; Censorship; XI. THE ANALYSIS OF ART

Analysis and CriticismXII. SURFACE AND FORM; AESTHETIC SURFACE; Quality and Texture; Texture; FORM; Form and Order; Specific Forms; XIII. FORM AND CONTENT; "FORM" AND "CONTENT"; XIV. REFERENCE; SYMBOLIZATION; Signs and Symbols; Standing For and Referring To; Icon and Ideogram; The Triangle of Meaning; Representation and Imitation; Expression; Arbitrariness; Emblems; Symbolization: A Broad Sense; XV. REFERENTS; PARTICULARS; Tension; ESSENCES; Reality; Types; Individuals; XVI. EXPRESSION; "Emotion" and "Expression"; THE CONTAGION OF FEELING; Mood and Feeling; THE DISTILLATION OF EXPERIENCE

Notes:

The Moment

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-4875-7538-6

OCLC:

1121052368