Aesthetics

 

                   William M. Conway - Literary Remains of Albrecht Durer

 

Modern Aesthetics: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

      Who and what to read:

             Francis Hutcheson - An Inquiry into the Original

                                         of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue

             David Hume - Of the Standard of Taste

                         Immanuel Kant - Critique of Judgment

 

Modern Aesthetics: Nineteenth Century

      Who and what to read:

             G.W.F. Hegel - The Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

             Arthur Schopenhauer - The World as Will and Idea

             Friedrich Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy from the Spirit of Music

             John Ruskin - Modern Painters

             Leo Tolstoy - What is Art?

 

Modern Aesthetics: Turn of the Century

      Who and what to read:

             Benedetto Croce - Aesthetic

             Edward Bullough - "Psychical Distance" as a Factor in Art

                                        and as an Aesthetic Principle

             Clive Bell - Art

 

Aesthetics in the Twentieth Century

      Who and what to read:

             Walter Benjamin - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction

             Morris Weitz - The Role of Theory in Aesthetic

             George Dickie - The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude

             Arthur Danto - The Artworld

 

From: Dabney Townsend, Aesthetics:

Classical Reading from the Western Tradition 2001. 

          Monroe C. Beardsley,

Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present 1966.

 

Literature Selections (Prof. Margaret Whalen's Selections for Humanities 1 Course)

Music Topics (Prof. Gary Toops' Topics for Humanities 1 Course)

Art Images (Prof. Richard Raynard's Selections)

Art Images (Professor Cristina Hernandez Selections for HUMA 1)

 

Glossary

 

Bibliography

 

The Sense of Beauty:

Being the Outline of Aesthetic Theory

by George Santayana, 1955

 

Art As Experience

by John Dewey, 1958

 

 Essays in the Philosophy of Art

  by R. G. Collingwood edited by Alan Donagan, 1964

 

Beauty and Other Forms of Value

by S. Alexander with an Introduction by Ralph Ross, 1968

 

  The Principles of Art

by R. G. Collingwood, 1972

 

Nine Basic Arts

by Paul Weiss, 1970

 

The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1972

 

Mind and Art:

An Essay on the Varieties of Expression

by Guy Sircello, 1972

 

The Forger's Art:

Forgery and the Philosophy of Art edited

by Denis Dutton, 1983

 

The Arts

by Dennis J. Sporre, 1984

 

Art and Experience in Classical Greece

by J. J. Pollitt, 1989

 

Art History's History

by Vernon Hyde Minor, 1994

 

Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present

  by Monroe C. Beardsley, 1966

 

Experience as Art:

Aesthetics in Everyday Life

by Joseph H. Kupfer, 1983

 

Philosophy Looks At The Arts:

Contemporary Readings in Aesthetics,

 Third Edition Edited by Joseph Margolis, 1987

 

Basic Issues in Aesthetics

by Marcia Muelder Eaton, 1988

 

Aesthetics

Edited by Susan Feagin and Patrick Maynard, 1997

 

 Aesthetics:

Classical Reading from the Western Tradition

by  Dabney Townsend, 2001

 

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics

edited by Jerrold Levinson, 2005

 

Theories of Modern Art:

A Source Book by Artists and Critics

by Herschel B. Chipp, 1968

 

Artists on Art:

From the XIV to the XX Century edited

by Robert Goldwater and Marco Treves, 1972

 

American Artists on Art from 1940 to 1980 edited

by Ellen H. Johnson, 1982

 

Gardener's Art Through the Ages

9th Edition, 1991

 

History of Art

Revised 5th Edition

by H. W. Janson and Anthony F. Janson, 1997

 

The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy

 edited by Anthony Kenny, 1997