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Prologue: The Function and Value of Art | 3 | |
Part I | Aesthetics: The Ends of Artworks | 13 |
Chapter 1 | Aesthetics I. The Nature of Art | 15 |
a. | The Media of Culture | 15 |
b. | Visual Media | 19 |
c. | Music | 28 |
d. | Language | 39 |
e. | Works and Performances, Originals and Copies | 52 |
f. | Representations and Arguments | 57 |
Chapter 2 | Aesthetics II. The Uses of Art | 65 |
a. | The Ethical Life | 65 |
b. | Art and History | 75 |
c. | Art and Philosophy | 80 |
d. | Art, Religion, and the State | 90 |
e. | Pleasure | 99 |
Chapter 3 | Aesthetics III. The Genealogy of Modern European Art Music | 108 |
a. | Social Practices and Their Histories | 111 |
b. | Functional and Autonomous Music | 115 |
c. | The Rise of Mimetic Music | 120 |
d. | The Rise of Abstract Music | 133 |
e. | The Cold War of Mimesis and Abstraction | 139 |
f. | The Significance of Abstraction | 152 |
Part II | Poetics and Hermeneutics: The Contents and Interpretation of Artworks | 163 |
Chapter 4 | Poetics I. Diegesis and Mimesis: The Poetic Modes and the Matter of Artistic Presentation | 165 |
a. | The Voices | 166 |
b. | The Modes in Painting and Music | 170 |
c. | The Author, Implied and Real, Dead and Alive | 184 |
Chapter 5 | Poetics II. Narrative and Lyric: The Poetic Forms and the Object of Artistic Presentation | 189 |
a. | Narrative and Lyric | 190 |
b. | The Forms in Painting and Music | 196 |
c. | Action and Passion | 202 |
Chapter 6 | Hermeneutics. Interpretation and Its Validity | 213 |
a. | Interpretation: Metaphor and Metonymy | 213 |
b. | Validity: Persuasion and Legitimacy | 227 |
Epilogue: The Power of Taste | 235 | |
Notes | 245 | |
Selected Bibliography | 269 | |
Index | 277 |
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