volume 54 number 3 (summer 1996)
articles
"The Effects of Blackness": Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant
meg armstrong
213
Hume and the Causal Theory of Taste
roger a. shiner
237
Beauty as Suitability
rudolf arnheim
251
Picturing Power: Representation and Las Meninas
amy m. schmitter
255
Saying, Singing, or Semiotics: "Prima la Musica e poi le Parole" Revisited
armen t. marsoobian
269
discussion
Gombrich and Danto on Defining Art
david carrier
279
Whatever Happened to Beauty?: A Response to Danto
kathleen marie higgins
281
Art, Essence, History, and Beauty: A Reply to Carrier, A Response to Higgins
arthur c. danto
284
Another Look at the "Multiple Viewpoint" Theory: A Reply to Richardson
nan stalnaker
287
A Rejoinder to Nan Stalnaker
john adkins richardson
291
book reviews
George J. Leonard, Into the Light of Things: The Art of the Commonplace from Wordsworth to John Cage
Reviewed garry l. hagberg
295
Peter Lamarque and Stein Haugom Olsen, Truth, Fiction, and Literature: A Philosophical Perspective
Reviewed by noël carroll
297
Jane Davidson Reid, The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s
Reviewed by julius m. moravcsik
300
Dudley Andrew, Mists of Regret: Culture and Sensibility in Classic French Film
Reviewed by alexander sesonske
301
Carol Becker, ed., The Subversive Imagination: Artists, Society, and Social Responsibility
Reviewed by john andrew fisher
302
Michael O'Toole, The Language of Displayed Art
Reviewed by don keefer
304
Stephen Davies, Musical Meaning and Expression
Reviewed by jenefer robinson
307