GORDON GRAHAM

is Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.

Chapter One Art and Pleasure Hume on taste and tragedy - Collingwood on art as amusement - Mill on higher and lower pleasures - the nature of pleasure Chapter Two Art and Beauty Beauty and pleasure - Kant on beauty -- the aesthetic attitude and the sublime - art and the aesthetic -- Gadamer and art as play - art and sport - summary Chapter Three Art and Emotion Tolstoy and everyday expressivism - Aristotle and katharsis -- expression and imagination -- Croce and 'intuition' -- Collingwood's expressivism - expression versus expressiveness - summary Chapter Four Art and Understanding Hegel, art and mind - art, science and knowledge - aesthetic cognitivism, for and against - imagination and experience - the objects of imagination - art and the world - understanding as a norm - art and human nature -- summary Chapter Five Music and Sonic Art Music and pleasure - music and emotion - music as language - music and representation - musical vocabulary and musical grammar - the uniqueness of music - music and beauty - music as the exploration of sound - sonic art and digital technology - summary Chapter Six The Visual Arts What is representation? - representation and artistic value - art and the visual - visual art and the non-visual - film as art - montage versus longshot - talkies - the 'auteur' in film - summary Chapter Seven The Literary Arts Poetry and prose -- the unity of form and content - figures of speech - expressive language - poetic devices - narrative and fiction - literature and understanding - summary Chapter Eight The Performing Arts Artist, audience and performer - painting as the paradigm of art - Nietzsche and The Birth of Tragedy - performance and participation - the art of the actor -- summary Chapter Nine Architecture as an Art The peculiarities of architecture - form and function and 'the decorated shed' - façade, deception and the 'Zeitgeist' - functionalism - formalism and 'space' - resumé --architectural expression -- architecture