An Introduction to Aesthetics

Introduction.

1. Language About Art and Aesthetics.

Getting Started. Aesthetic Predicates.

Criticism and Value Terms.

The Problem of Definition.

2. Aesthetic Analysis and Its Objects.

Formal Analysis.

Aesthetic Objects.

3. The Artist and the Work of Art.

The Artist's Intentions.

Inspiration.

Creativity and Originality.

Breaking the Connection Between Artist and Art.

4. The Audience and the Work of Art.

Attitudes of the Audience.

Critics and Criticism.

Institutions and the Role of the Audience.

5. The Artist and the Audience.

The Aesthetics of Reception.

Mythpoesis: Myth and Ritual.

Institutional and Post-Institutional Aesthetics.

Appendix.

Glossary.

Index.