Rob van Gerwen, 1996
Art and Experience
Department of Philosophy, Utrecht University
Ph.D. Dissertation
Table of Contents
IntroductionPart I | |
Cognitivist Reductions--Introduction to Part I | 6 |
Chapter One | |
1. Extensionalist Nominalism | 9 |
2. Art, Symbols, and Pictorial Representation | 11 |
3. Pictures and Resemblance | 15 |
4. Convention D (for Depiction) | 20 |
5. Exemplification | 24 |
6. Depiction Based in Exemplification | 27 |
7. Depiction and Discourse | 31 |
Chapter Two | |
1. Aesthetic Difference | 37 |
2. Aesthetic Properties | 40 |
3. Primary, Secondary, and Aesthetic Qualities | 44 |
4. Subjectivism--Preliminary Remarks | 49 |
Chapter Three | |
1. The Institutional Definition | 52 |
2. Definitions and Purposivity | 55 |
3. Artistic Procedures and Exemplars | 57 |
4. Anti-Art and Four Orders of Artistic Intentionality | 59 |
5. Art's Characteristics | 62 |
Part II | |
Chapter Four | |
1. Taste and Common Sense | 67 |
2. Beauty's `Rule' | 68 |
3. Beauty's Independence from Determinate Concepts | 70 |
4. The Free Play's Ambiguous Role | 74 |
5. Everyday Sound Understanding | 77 |
6. An Ideal Aesthetic Experience | 79 |
7. A regulative Principle of Aesthetic Discourse | 80 |
Chapter Five | |
1. Aesthetic Ideas and the Free Play | 83 |
2. The Ideal of Beauty and its Moral Relevance | 86 |
3. Beauty not an Aesthetic Property | 90 |
Chapter Six | |
1. Introduction | 95 |
2. Leibniz's `Individual' | 96 |
3. Human Finiteness and Perception | 100 |
4. Aesthetic Truth(-likeness) | 104 |
5. Art Must Show Moral Dignity | 109 |
6. Mutual Dependence Between Subject and Object | 112 |
7. Aesthetic Qualities | 115 |
8. Conclusions to Part II | 117 |
Part III | |
Introduction to Part III | 120 |
Chapter Seven | |
1. Introduction. | 125 |
2. Intimation of Experience. | 126 |
3. Pictorial Reproduction and Representation | 129 |
4. Art's Threefoldness | 131 |
5. Artistic Expression, and Intimation | 133 |
6. Intimation and Convention | 136 |
7. Musical representation. | 140 |
8. Objective, and Aesthetic Qualities | 144 |
9. Tertiary Qualities | 147 |
Chapter Eight | |
1. Introduction | 153 |
2. Embodied Perception and Art's Restricted Address of the Senses | 154 |
3. Perceptual and Imaginative Empathy | 158 |
4. The Task of Art | 160 |
5. Aesthetic Evaluation--Imaginativist Subjectivism | 163 |
Conclusions | |
References | 171 |
Glossary to the Main Terms | 176 |
Index | 186 |
Kunst en Beleving (Samenvatting in het Nederlands--summary in English) | 189 |
© Rob van Gerwen