Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editors' acknowledgments
- 1 Interests, values, and explanations
- 2 Fiction and reality in painting
- 3 Franz Kafka: the necessity for a philosophical interpretation of his work
- 4 On relocating ethical criticism
- 5 Explanation and value: what makes the visual arts so different, so appealing?
- 6 Is art history?
- 7 Objectivity and valuation in contemporary art history
- 8 Fullness and parsimony: notes on creativity in the arts
- 9 Principles of a sociology of cultural works
- 10 Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts
- 11 Film, rhetoric, and ideology
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editors' acknowledgments
- 1 Interests, values, and explanations
- 2 Fiction and reality in painting
- 3 Franz Kafka: the necessity for a philosophical interpretation of his work
- 4 On relocating ethical criticism
- 5 Explanation and value: what makes the visual arts so different, so appealing?
- 6 Is art history?
- 7 Objectivity and valuation in contemporary art history
- 8 Fullness and parsimony: notes on creativity in the arts
- 9 Principles of a sociology of cultural works
- 10 Althusser and ideological criticism of the arts
- 11 Film, rhetoric, and ideology
- Index
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- Explanation and Value in the Arts , pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1993