Marvelous images : on values and the arts / Kendall L. Walton.
"The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation or photography. In "...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Aesthetic And Moral Values
- Part II. Pictures And Photographs
- Part III. Categories And Styles
- Introduction
- Part I. Aesthetic And Moral Values
- 1. How Marvelous: Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value
- Postscripts to "How Marvelous!"
- 2. The Test of Time
- 3, Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality
- 4. On the (So-Called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance
- Part II. Pictures And Photographs
- 5. Pictures & Hobby Horses: Make-Believe Beyond Childhood
- 6. Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism
- Postscripts to "Transparent Pictures"
- 7. On Pictures & Photographs: Objections Answered
- 8. Seeing In and Seeing Fictionally
- 9. Depiction, Perception, & Imagination: Responses to Richard Wollheim
- 10. Experiencing Still Photographs: What Do You See and How Long Do You See It?
- Part III. Categories And Styles
- 11. Categories of Art
- 12. Style and the Products and Processes of Art.