Ideas About Art

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

1 Public Opinion/Public Art.

I Don’t Know Anything About Art, But I Know What I Like!

2 Non-Western Ideas About What Art Is.

Is Art Situational? Cultural? Biological? Universal?

3 Western Ideas About What Art Is.

4 Beauty.

Does Art Have to be Beautiful?

5 Expression and Aesthetic Experience.

6 Art and Ethics.

Morals and Religion.

7 Political Art, Censorship, and Pornography.

When Art Is Too Powerful, Cover It Up.

8 Art and Economics.

9 Feminist Art, Aesthetics, and Art Criticism.

Where Were the Women in My Art History Books?

10 Postmodernist Art and Attitudes.

11 Photography and New Media.

12 (Re)Discovering Design.

13 Art and Aesthetic Education.

14 Artists, Art Critics, Art Historians, Curators, Museums, and Viewers.

Making Art Ideas Your Own.

Bibliography.

Illustration Credits.

Index.