For over fifty years, philosophers working within the broader remit of analytic philosophy have developed and refined a substantial body of work in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, curating a core foundation of scholarship which offers rigor and clarity on matters of profound and perennial interest relating to art and all forms of aesthetic appreciation. Now in its second edition and thoroughly revised, Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art--The Analytic Tradition: An Anthology captures this legacy in a comprehensive introduction to the core philosophical questions and conversations in aesthetics. Through 57 key essays selected by leading scholars Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen, this anthology collects modern classics as well as new contributions on essential topics such as the identification and ontology of art, interpretation, values of art, art and knowledge, and fiction and the imagination. New to this edition are selections which treat aesthetic experience more widely, including essays on the aesthetics of nature and aesthetics in everyday life. Other carefully-chosen pieces analyze the practice and experience of specific art forms in greater detail, including painting, photography, film, literature, music, and popular art such as comics. This bestselling collection is an essential resource for students and scholars of aesthetics, designed to foster a foundational understanding of both long-standing and contemporary topics in the field.

PETER LAMARQUE is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York and was formerly editor of the British Journal of Aesthetics. His books include Fictional Points of View (1996), The Philosophy of Literature (2008), Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art (2010), and The Opacity of Narrative (2014). STEIN HAUGOM OLSEN is Professor of British Literature and Head of the Department of English Language and Literature at Bilkent University, Ankara. He was formerly the Pro-Rector of Østfold University College, Norway, and has held chairs in English, comparative literature, and philosophy at the universities of Oslo and Bergen and at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His books include The Structure of Literary Understanding (1978), The End of Literary Theory (1987), and Truth, Fiction, and Literature (1994) (with Peter Lamarque).

Acknowledgments x Extracts from the General Introduction to the First Edition (2004) xiii General Introduction to the Second Edition xvii Part I Identifying Art 1 Introduction 3 1 The Artworld 7 Arthur C. Danto 2 The New Institutional Theory of Art 15 George Dickie 3 An Aesthetic Definition of Art 22 Monroe C. Beardsley 4 "But They Don't Have Our Concept of Art" 30 Denis Dutton 5 Nobody Needs a Theory of Art 43 Dominic McIver Lopes 6 Art: What it Is and Why it Matters 54 Catharine Abell Part II Ontology of Art 67 Introduction 69 7 What a Musical Work Is 71 Jerrold Levinson 8 Defending Musical Platonism 84 Julian Dodd 9 Against Musical Ontology 98 Aaron Ridley 10 The Ontology of Art and Knowledge in Aesthetics 108 Amie L. Thomasson Part III Aesthetic Properties and Aesthetic Experience 117 Introduction 119 11 Aesthetic Concepts 121 Frank Sibley 12 Categories of Art 134 Kendall L. Walton 13 In Defence of Moderate Aesthetic Formalism 149 Nick Zangwill 14 How to Be a Pessimist about Aesthetic Testimony 159 Robert Hopkins 15 Recent Approaches to Aesthetic Experience 170 Noël Carroll Part IV Intention and Interpretation 183 Introduction 185 16 Intentions and Interpretations: A Fallacy Revived 187 Monroe C. Beardsley 17 The Literary Work as a Pliable Entity: Combining Realism and Pluralism 197 Torsten Pettersson 18 Authors' Intentions, Literary Interpretation, and Literary Value 208 Stephen Davies Part V Values of Art 223 Introduction 225 19 Originals, Copies, and Aesthetic Value 229 Jack W. Meiland 20 Artistic Value 236 Malcolm Budd 21 The Ethical Criticism of Art 247 Berys Gaut 22 Artistic Value and Opportunistic Moralism 258 Eileen John 23 What's Wrong with the (Female) Nude? A Feminist Perspective on Art and Pornography 266 A.W. Eaton Part VI Art and Knowledge 283 Introduction 285 24 On the Cognitive Triviality of Art 289 Jerome Stolnitz 25 Art and Moral Knowledge 295 Cynthia A. Freeland 26 Reading Fiction and Conceptual Knowledge: Philosophical Thought in Literary Context 310 Eileen John 27 Cognitive Values in the Arts: Marking the Boundaries 326 Peter Lamarque Part VII Fictionality and Imagination 337 Introduction 339 28 Fearing Fictions 343 Kendall L. Walton 29 The Logical Status of Fictional Discourse 355 John Searle 30 The Expression of Feeling in Imagination 363 Richard Moran 31 The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance 378 Tamar Szabó Gendler 32 Anne Brontë and the Uses of Imagination 393 Gregory Currie 33 Fiction as a Genre 402 Stacie Friend Part VIII Pictorial Art 417 Introduction 419 34 On Pictorial Representation 421 Richard Wollheim 35 Pictorial Realism 431 Catharine Abell 36 Telling Pictures: The Place of Narrative in Late Modern 'Visual Art' 441 David Davies Part IX Photography and Film 451 Introduction 453 37 Photography and Representation 457 Roger Scruton 38 Photography and Causation: Responding to Scruton's Scepticism 472 Dawn M. Phillips 39 Cinematic Art 483 Berys Gaut 40 Theses on Cinema as Philosophy 496 Paisley Livingston 41 Narration in Motion 503 Katherine J. Thomson-Jones Part X Literature 511 Introduction 513 42 Style and Personality in the Literary Work 517 Jenefer M. Robinson 43 Literary Aesthetics and Literary Practice 527 Stein Haugom Olsen 44 Fictional Characters and Literary Practices 537 Amie L. Thomasson 45 The Elusiveness of Poetic Meaning 549 Peter Lamarque Part XI Music 561 Introduction 563 46 The Profundity of Music 567 Peter Kivy 47 Against Emotion: Hanslick Was Right about Music 574 Nick Zangwill 48 Listening with Emotion: How Our Emotions Help Us to Understand Music 583 Jenefer Robinson Part XII Popular Arts 601 Introduction 603 49 Defining Mass Art 607 Noël Carroll 50 Just a Song? Exploring the Aesthetics of Popular Song Performance 623 Jeanette Bicknell 51 Comics as Literature? 632 Aaron Meskin 52 The Vice of Snobbery: Aesthetic Knowledge, Justification and Virtue in Art Appreciation 647 Matthew Kieran Part XIII Aesthetics of Nature and Everyday Aesthetics 659 Introduction 661 53 Appreciation and the Natural Environment 665 Allen Carlson 54 Scientific Knowledge and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature 673 Patricia Matthews 55 Aesthetic Character and Aesthetic Integrity in Environmental Conservation 684 Emily Brady 56 Everyday Aesthetics 695 Yuriko Saito 57 The Pervasiveness of the Aesthetic in Ordinary Experience 700 Sherri Irvin Index 710