Philosophy of Art

ONE: ARTISTS: CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY.Plato: The Ion (Woodruff translation).Wordsworth: Preface to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.Nietzsche: "Attempt at a Self-Criticism," and extensive excerpts from sections 1-15 of The Birthof Tragedy (Kaufmann translation).Freud: "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming" (Grant Duff translation).Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent."Beardsley: "On the Creation of Art."John Dewey: "Having an Experience."Hans-Georg Gadamer: "The Play of Art," from The Relevance of the Beautiful.Christine Battersby: "The Male Gift" and "The Great +I AM'," Chapters 4 and 5 of Gender and Genius.TWO: ARTWORKS.Form and Content.Clive Bell: "The Aesthetic Hypothesis," from Art.Clement Greenberg: "Modernist Painting."R. G. Collingwood: Excerpts from the Introduction and Book I, "Art and Not Art," of The Principles of Art.R. K. Elliott: "Aesthetic Theory and the Experience of Art."The Project of DefinitionMorris Weitz: "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics."Maurice Mandelbaum: "Family Resemblances and Generalizations Concerning the Arts."Arthur C. Danto: "The Artworld."George Dickie: "The New Institutional Theory of Art."Jerrold Levinson: "Defining Art Historically."Richard Eldridge: "Form and Content: An Aesthetic Theory of Art."THREE: AUDIENCES.The Logic of Taste.David Hume: "Of the Standard of Taste."Immanuel Kant: "Analytic of the Beautiful."Edward Bullough, "Psychical Distance."Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts. Kendall Walton: "Categories of Art." Stanley Cavell: "Aesthetic Judgment and a Philosophical Claim."Arnold Isenberg: "Critical Communication."Intention and Interpretation.Dewey: "Having an Experience," from Art as Experience.Wimsatt & Beardsley: "The Intentional Fallacy."Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author," from Image-Music-Text.E. D. Hirsch: "In Defense of the Author" (Chapter 1 of Validity in Interpretation).Richard Wollheim: "Criticism as Retrieval."Michael Baxandall: "Intentional Visual Interest" from Chapter 2 of Patterns of