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Introduction. PAINTING. Plato, Against Imitation. Clive Bell, Form in Modern Painting. Edmund Burke Feldman, A Formal Analysis. Clement Greenberg, Modernist Painting. David Carrier, American-Type Formalism. Michael Baxandall, W0I>Intentional Visual Interest. Ernst Gombrich. The Limits Of Likeness. Nelson Goodman, Reality Remade. Denis Dutton, Artistic Crimes. Arthur C. Danto, The Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art. Arthur C. Danto, Aesthetics and the Work of Art. Kendall L. Walton, Mimesis As Make-Believe. Martin Heidegger, The Origin of the Work of Art. Jacques Derrida, The Truth in Painting. Linda Nochlin, Why Are There No Great Women Artists? PHOTOGRAPHY. Walter Benjamin, The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Roger Scruton, Why Photography Is Not Art. Kendall L. Walton, Transparent Pictures. Ted Cohen, What''s Special About Photography? Terry Barrett, Photographs and Contexts. FILM AND VIDEO ART. Plato, Allegory of the Cave. Noël Carroll, The Power of Movies. Laura Mulvey, Woman as Image, Man as Bearer of the Look. Stanley Cavell, Audience, Actor, and Star. Alexander Sesonske, Space, Time, and Motion in Film. David Antin, Video: Distinctive Features of the Medium. THE THIRD DIMENSION: ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE. Suzanne Langer, Virtual Space. Adolf Loos, Ornament and Crime. Le Corbusier, Towards an Architecture. Robert Venturi, Architecture as Decorated Shelter. Jacques Derrida, A Discussion of Architecture (with Christopher Norris). David Goldblatt, The Dislocation of the Architectural Self. Jeffrey Kipnis, Nolo Contendere. Roger Scruton, Representation and Expression in Architecture. Donald Crawford, Nature and Art. MUSIC. Jenefer Robinson, The Expression and Arousal of Emotion in Music. Diana Raffman, A Wealth of Wordless Knowledge. Roger Scruton, Representation in Music. Peter Kivy, Sound and Semblance. Evan Eisensberg, The Recording Angel. Lee B. Brown, Phonography. Lydia Goehr, Being True to the Work. John Miller Chernoff, African Music. Jerrold Levinson, On the Concept of Music. DANCE. Suzanne Langer, Virtual Powers. Monroe C. Beardsley, What Is Going on in a Dance? Carroll and Banes, Working and Dancing. Albert Mawere Opoku, Dances of the Secret Society. LITERATURE. Terry Eagleton, What Is Literature? R.G. Collingwood, The Poetic Expression of Emotion. Marcel Danesi, Metaphor. J. O. Urmson, Literature as a Performing Art. Monroe Beardsley, The Intention of the Author. Richard Shusterman, Beneath Interpretation. Michel Foucault, What Is an Author? THEATRE. Plato, Ion. Aristotle, On Tragedy. Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy. Sigmund Freud, On Oedipus Rex and Hamlet. Lionel Abel, Metatheatre. Robert B. Heilman, Melodrama. Noël Carrol, Performance. POPULAR ARTS. Jean-François Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition. Umberto Eco, Television and Aesthetics. Jean Baudrillard, Simulations. Alexander Nehamas, Plato and the Mass Media. Lee B. Brown, Adorno''s Case Against Popular Music. Richard Shusterman, Form and Funk. Theodore Gracyk, Why is Rock Music So Noisy? Joel Rudinow, Can White People Sing the Blues? Robert Solomon, Kitsch. Ted Cohen, Jokes. Sara K. Schneider, Mannequins. David Goldblatt, Ventriloquism. Joel Feinberg, Pornography. Catherine MacKinnon, Liberty and Its Limits. APPENDIX. Classic Sources. David Hume, Of the Standard of Taste.Edmund Burke, The Sublime.Immanuel Kant, Judgments About the Beautiful.G. W. F. Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art.John Dewey, Art As Experience.Contemporary Sources. Kendall L. Walton, Categories Of Art.Morris Weitz, The Role of Theory in Aesthetics.George Dickie, Art As a Social Institution.Fredric Jameson, The Hysterical Sublime.Peg Brand, Can Feminist Art Be Experienced Disinterestedly?Maurice Berger, Are Art Museums Racist?Carole S. Vance, The War On Culture.