Contemporary philiosophy of art : readings in analytic aesthetics / edited by John W. Bender and H. Gene Blocker.

Preface -- 1. Taking Stock -- Analytic Aesthetics: Retrospect and Prospect -- Letting the Sunshine In: Has Analysis Made Aesthetics Clear? -- The Eclipse and Recovery of Analytic Aesthetics -- Philosophy of Art After Analysis and Romanticism -- 2. The Postmodern Challenge -- The Philosophy of Postmodernism -- Art, Culture, and Postmodern Expression: A Communicative Aesthetic -- The Contradictory Character of Postmodernism -- Feminism in Context: A Role for Feminist Theory in Aesthetic Evaluation -- 3. Case in Point: Expressiveness and Art -- Intuition and Expression -- Does Traditional Aesthetics Rest on a Mistake? -- Expressiveness -- Is Music a Language of the Emotions? -- Exemplification and Expression -- The Concept of Expression: A Proposal -- 4. The Particularity of Art and the Generality of Theory -- Critique of the Aesthetical Judgment -- The Role of Theory in Aesthetics -- The Artistic Enfranchisement of Real Objects: The Artworld -- What Is Art? An Institutional Analysis -- An Institutional Theory of Art -- What Is a Work of Art? -- 5. Art and Its Properties -- Regional Qualities -- Aesthetic Concepts -- The Variety of Aesthetic Qualities -- Expressive Properties of Art -- Categories of Art -- 6. What Sorts of Things Are Works of Art? -- From Art and Its Objects: An Introduction to Aesthetics -- The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art -- Toward an Ontology of Art Works -- What a Musical Work Is -- Music and Metaphysics: Types and Patterns, Performances and Works -- 7. Aesthetic Experience and Art's Value -- The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude -- The Aesthetic Point of View -- The Activity of Aesthetic Experience -- In Defense of Aesthetic Value -- Instrumental Cognitivism -- Aesthetic Responses and Works of Art -- 8. Questions of Interpretation -- Critical Communication -- The Testability of an Interpretation -- Describing and Interpreting a Work of Art -- Reinterpreting Interpretation -- Hermeneutics and the 'Crisis' of Literature -- Interpreting Art -- 9. Evaluating Art and the Relativism Controversy -- The Refutation of Relativism -- Robust Relativism -- Towards a Robust Realism -- Art and Beauty -- General Criteria and Reasons in Aesthetics -- Beardsley, Sibley, and Critical Principles -- 10. Art, Science, and Knowledge: Knowing the World through Art -- Art and Knowledge -- Interpretation in Science and in Art -- Art and the Understanding -- Literature, Science, and Reflection -- Fiction and the Growth of Knowledge -- Art as a Source of Knowledge: Linking Analytic Aesthetics and Epistemology.