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基本説明
The twelve essays by Kendall Walton include his classic "Categories of Art", as well as "Transparent Pictures", his controversial account of what is special about photographs. A new essay investigates the fact that still pictures are still, although some of them depict motion. New postscripts have been added to several of the reprinted essays.
Full Description
The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of issues concerning the arts. Walton introduces an innovative account of aesthetic value, and explores relations between aesthetic value and values of other kinds. His classic 'Categories of Art' is included, as is 'Transparent Pictures', his controversial account of what is special about photographs. A new essay investigates the fact that still pictures are still, although some of them depict motion. New postscripts have been added to several of the reprinted essays.
Contents
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
