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Street Art, the Discontinuity Thesis, and the Artworld Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Jeanette Bicknell
Abstract The topic of this article is the relationship of street art to both the street (or “the street”) and the artworld. I take it as significant that philosophers have turned their attention to “street art” and not, say, “urban outdoor art” or “site-specific art in urban settings.” The “street” in street art seems to imply more than a location or geographic modifier. I consider the further significance
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The Primacy of Form over Color: On the Discussion of Primary and Secondary Qualities in Herder’s Pygmalion Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Lasse Hodne
Abstract A key question in the art debate in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was whether color should be used for sculpture. Recent archaeological research had shown that the sculpture in ancient Greece was polychrome, but skepticism about applying paint to one’s own work was widespread among modern sculptors. Some scholars explain this reluctance as a consequence of racial prejudice: the Greek
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The Fictional Road Not Taken: A Weak Anti-realist Theory of Fiction Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-04-09 Peter Alward
Abstract Nathan Salmon has defended what might be called “weak modal anti-realism”—the view that possible-object names can refer to possible objects that neither exist nor are otherwise real. But rather than adopting a similar view in the fictional case, he instead defends fictional creationism—the view that fictional characters are existent but abstract entities created by authors of fiction. In this
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Merely Methodological Naturalism in Aesthetics: A Proposed Revision of Zuckert’s Herder Interpretation Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Naomi Fisher
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Supplementing Herder’s Naturalism: Expanding the Senses and Transcending Cultures Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jonathan M Weinberg
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Art Scents: Exploring the Aesthetics of Smell and the Olfactory Arts Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Cynthia Freeland
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The Philosophy of Mixed Martial Arts Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Jeanette Bicknell
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Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Francey Russell
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Sculpture in Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Whitney Davis
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Ars Erotica: Sex and Somaesthetics in the Classical Arts of Love Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Mary Bittner Wiseman
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Author’s Reply for Herder’s Naturalistic Aesthetics Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Rachel Zuckert
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Resisting Tiny Heroes: Kant on the Mechanism and Scope of Imaginative Resistance Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-02-22 Morganna Lambeth
Abstract Traditionally, theorists suggested that imaginative resistance (e.g., when a reader does not imagine what a literary work entreats her to imagine) is limited to morally repugnant claims. More recently, theorists have argued that the phenomenon of imaginative resistance is wider in scope, extending to descriptive claims (e.g., those that are conceptually contradictory). On both sides, though
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Aesthetics of the Narrative Climax in Contemporary TV Serials Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-02-05 Héctor J Pérez
Abstract This article draws on concepts from cognitive psychology to explore the significance of the narrative climax, focusing on the final climax of the series The Americans as a case study. Two aspects of the aesthetic experience are considered: the special intensity that climaxes elicit, and the diversity of the cognitive content they generate, which can include both aesthetic and non-aesthetic
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Aesthetic Realism and Manifest Properties Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Andrea Sauchelli
Abstract This article outlines a realist theory of aesthetic properties as higher-order manifest properties and defends it from several objections, including a possible conflict with contextualist approaches to the aesthetic properties of works of art.
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Learning Implicit Biases from Fiction Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2022-01-31 Kris Goffin,Stacie Friend
Abstract Philosophers and psychologists have argued that fiction can ethically educate us: fiction supposedly can make us better people. This view has been contested. It is, however, rarely argued that fiction can morally “corrupt” us. In this article, we focus on the alleged power of fiction to decrease one's prejudices and biases. We argue that if fiction has the power to change prejudices and biases
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Arts of Address, Being Alive to Language and the World Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-11-30 Mariana Ortega
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What Makes Heavy Metal ‘Heavy’? Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Jason Miller
Abstract In this article, I raise a simple but surprisingly vexing question: What makes heavy metal heavy? We commonly describe music as “heavy,” whether as criticism or praise. But what does “heavy” mean? How is it applied as an aesthetic term? Drawing on sociological and musicological studies of heavy metal, as well as recent work on the aesthetics of rock music, I discuss the relevant musical properties
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A Philosopher Looks at Architecture Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Fred Rush
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Attentional Engines: A Perceptual Theory of the Arts Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Jonathan M Weinberg
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Two Thumbs Up: How Critics Aid Appreciation. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-11-24 Keren Gorodeisky
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The Role of Teleological Thinking in Judgments of Persistence of Musical Works Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-11-18 Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė,Vilius Dranseika
Abstract In his article “The Ontology of Musical Versions: Introducing the Hypothesis of Nested Types,” Nemesio Puy raises a hypothesis that continuity of the purpose is both a necessary and a sufficient condition for musical work’s identity. Puy’s hypothesis is relevant to two topics in cognitive psychology and experimental philosophy. The first topic is the prevalence of teleological reasoning about
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Player Engagement with Games: Formal Reliefs and Representation Checks Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-10-29 Karl Egerton
Abstract Alongside the direct parallels and contrasts between traditional narrative fiction and games, there lie certain partial analogies that provide their own insights. This article begins by examining a direct parallel between narrative fiction and games—the role of fictional reliefs and reality checks in shaping aesthetic engagement—before arguing that from this a partial analogy can be developed
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Toward a Communitarian Theory of Aesthetic Value Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Nick Riggle
Abstract Our paradigms of aesthetic value condition the philosophical questions we pose and hope to answer about it. Theories of aesthetic value are typically individualistic, in the sense that the paradigms they are designed to capture, and the questions to which they are offered as answers, center the individual’s engagement with aesthetic value. Here I offer some considerations that suggest that
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By What Criteria Are Pictorial Styles Individuated? Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-10-27 Hoyeon Lim
Abstract In this article, I argue that pictorial styles are individuated in terms of different degrees of determinacy. For example, Morandi’s still-life etchings and Monet’s cathedral paintings embody different styles in that in the former, shape properties are differentiated in a fine-grained manner, and in the latter, coarse grained. I develop this view by critically examining John Kulvicki’s analysis
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Some Considerations Regarding Adornment, the Gender “Binary,” and Gender Expression Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-27 Wesley D Cray
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Creative Agency as Executive Agency: Grounding the Artistic Significance of Automatic Images Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Claire Anscomb
Abstract This article examines the artistic potential of forms of image-making that involve registering the features of real objects using mind-independent processes. According to skeptics, these processes limit an agent’s intentional control over the features of the resultant “automatic images,” which in turn limits the artistic potential of the work, and the form as a whole. I argue that this is
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On the Adorning Arts; An Argument for Artistic Adornment Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-07 Julia Minarik
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Tattoos Can Sometimes Be Art: A Modest Embellishment of Stephen Davies’s Adornment Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-07 E M Dadlez
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WILLARD, MARY BETH. Why It’s OK to Enjoy the Work of Immoral Artists Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-03 Adriana Clavel-Vázquez
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PENNER, NINA. Storytelling in Opera and Musical Theater Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Andrew Kania
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CATHARINE, ABELL. Fiction: A Philosophical Analysis Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Eileen John
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PIPPIN, ROBERT B. Philosophy by Other Means: The Arts in Philosophy and Philosophy in the Arts Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Ingvild Torsen
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PAKES, ANNA. Choreography Invisible: The Disappearing Work of Dance Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-09-01 Graham Mcfee
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The Truthful Portrait: Can Posing Be a Tool for Authenticity in Portraiture? Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Aurélie J Debaene
Abstract This article explores the compatibility of posing and authenticity in portraiture. Often understood as a source of inauthenticity, I propose that posing in fact functions as an artistic tool that can support a truthful portrayal. My argument first discusses authenticity in relation to portraiture through the lens of Bernard Williams’s idea of “truthfulness,” which relies on his notions of
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Racialized Disgust, Embodied Affect, and the Portrayal of Native Americans in Classic Hollywood Westerns Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-08-14 Dan Flory
Abstract During the early part of the classic Hollywood sound period (1930–60), filmmakers sharpened a standardized way to portray Native American characters in Westerns. Such figures were depicted as disgusting by virtue of being beyond the pale in terms of their “acceptable” moral behavior, as measured by common white sensibilities of the era. This behavior was attributed to their nonwhiteness and
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Poetry and the Possibility of Paraphrase Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-08-11 Gregory Currie,Jacopo Frascaroli
Abstract Why is there a long-standing debate about paraphrase in poetry? Everyone agrees that paraphrase can be useful; everyone agrees that paraphrase is no substitute for the poem itself. What is there to disagree about? Perhaps this: whether paraphrase can specify everything that counts as a contribution to the meaning of a poem. There are, we say, two ways to take the question; on one way of taking
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The Real Reasons Why Gamers Are not Performers—A Reply to Kania Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-08-01 Martin Ricksand
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Why the Sublime Is Aesthetic Awe Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-07-10 Robert R Clewis
Abstract This article focuses on the conceptual relationship between awe and the experience of the sublime. I argue that the experience of the sublime is best conceived as a species of awe, namely, as aesthetic awe. I support this conclusion by considering the prominent conceptual relations between awe and the experience of the sublime, showing that all of the options except the proposed one suffer
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The Case of (Digital) Wagner Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-26 Peter Kivy
Abstract The article argues that the proposal to produce a digital Ring cycle was not just ethically and economically misguided, but aesthetically misguided as well. Orchestras produces performances, and the proposed digital Ring would not have produced genuine performances of the Ring operas. Nevertheless, a digital musical work might allow us to reconstruct, and in that way recover and gain access
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Thinking the Sculpture Garden: Art, Plant, Landscape Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Mara Miller
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Looking for Profundity (in All the Wrong Places) Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-25 Bence Nanay
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Kivy’s Mystery: Absolute Music and What the Formalist Can (or Could) Hear Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-19 Garry L Hagberg
Abstract Peter Kivy has said that the power of purely instrumental music remains an unexplained wonder. With this larger question in mind, I will consider: (1) the issues in musical aesthetics that led to what Kivy termed his enhanced formalism, (2) his conception of expressive properties in music and how a distinction between having and understanding an emotion can help clarify this issues here (that
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Relief and the Structure of Intentions in Late Palaeolithic Cave Art Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Fiona Hughes
Abstract Artworks at Lascaux and other late Palaeolithic caves integrate geological features or “relief” of the cave wall in a way that suggests a symbiotic relation between nature and culture. I argue this qualifies as “receptivity to a situation,” which is neither fully active nor merely passive and emerges as a necessary element of the intentions made apparent by such cave art. I argue against prominent
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Introduction: The Peter Kivy Prize Symposium Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-18 Aaron Meskin
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Two Kinds of “Bad” Musical Performance: Musical and Moral Mistakes Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Justin London
Abstract There are many ways in which a musical performance can be “bad,” but here the focus is on two: those performances that make you laugh, and those that make you angry. These forms of musical badness, however, are not primarily compositional deficits, but either (a) that the performer simply cannot competently deliver the music to their audience, inducing laughter, or (b) that the performer exhibits
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DAVIES, STEPHEN. Adornment: What Self-Decoration Tells Us About Who We Are Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Marilynn Johnson
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Ready Player One? A Response to Ricksand Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-15 Andrew Kania
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Nanay, Bence. Aesthetics: A Very Short Introduction Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-10 Brandon Polite
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Nguyen, C. THI. Games: Agency as Art Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Aaron Meskin
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KANIA, ANDREW. Philosophy of Western Music: A Contemporary Introduction Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-06-04 Jennifer Judkins
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How Empathy with Fictional Characters Differs from Empathy with Real Persons Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Thomas Petraschka
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Invisible Images and Indeterminacy: Why We Need a Multi-stage Account of Photography Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-04-19 Dawn M Wilson
Abstract Some photographs show determinate features of a scene because the photographed scene had those features. This dependency relation is, rightly, a consensus in philosophy of photography. I seek to refute many long-established theories of photography by arguing that they are incompatible with this commitment. In Section II, I classify accounts of photography as either single-stage or multi-stage
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How Empathy With Fictional Characters Undermines Moral Self-Trust Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-03-24 Anja Berninger
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Kant on Aesthetic Ideas, Rational Ideas and the Subject-Matter of Art Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Ido Geiger
Abstract The notion of aesthetic ideas is of great importance to Kant's thinking about art. Despite its importance, he says little about it. He characterizes aesthetic ideas as representations of the imagination and says that the gift of artistic genius is the inscrutable capacity to envision them. Furthermore, they are counterparts of rational ideas. Works of art thus sensibly present rational ideas;
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Empathy in Appreciation: An Axiological Account Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Íngrid Vendrell Ferran
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Nested Types and Musical Versions: Replying to Davies’s Challenges Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Nemesio García-Carril Puy
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Rita Felski, Hooked: Art and Attachment Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Michael Fischer
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Empathy’s Role in Different Levels of Understanding Literature: Empirical and Philosophical Perspectives Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Christiana Werner,Jana Lüdtke