JAAC - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

volume 58 number 4 (fall 2000)

articles

The Empiricist Theory of Artistic Value
r. a. sharpe
321

Aristotle, Thought, and Mimesis: Our Responses to Fiction
sarah e. worth
333

Comparative Semantic Approaches to the Idea of a Literary Canon
earl r. anderson and gianfrancesco zanetti
341

Phonography, Rock Records, and the Ontology of Recorded Music
lee b. brown
361

Looking at Metaphors
francisca pérez-carreño
373

Scruton, Sibley, and Supervenience
john e. mackinnon
383

 

essay review

The Return of the Beautiful: Morality, Pleasure, and the Value of Uncertainty

Elaine Scarry, On Beauty and Being Just
Dave Hickey, Air Guitar
Dave Hickey, The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty

Reviewed by alexander nehamas
393

 

book reviews

Noël Carroll, A Philosophy of Mass Art
Reviewed by david novitz
405

Mark Roskill, The Languages of Landscape
W. J. T. Mitchell, ed., Landscape and Power
Christiana Payne, Toil and Plenty: Images of the Agricultural Landscape
in England 1780-1890

Kay Dian Kriz, The Idea of the English Landscape Painter: Genius as Alibi in the
Early Nineteenth Century

Timothy F. Mitchell, Art and Science in German Landscape Painting 1770-1840
Nicholas Green, The Spectacle of Nature: Landscape and Bourgeois Culture in
Nineteenth Centure France

Reviewed by stephanie ross
407

T. J. Clark, Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
Bernard Smith, Modernism's History: A Study in Twentieth-Century Art
Reviewed by elizabeth mansfield
411

Joseph Margolis, What, After All, Is a Work of Art?
Reviewed by john rapko
413

Abigail Solomon Godeau, Male Trouble: A Crisis in Representation
Steven Cohan, Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties
Reviewed by sally markowitz
415

Francis Sparshott, The Future of Aesthetics
Reviewed by richard kuhns
418

Rona Goffen, Titian's Women
Frederika H. Jacobs, Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists
and the Language of Art History and Criticism

Reviewed by mary wiseman
420

 

Index: Volume 58
431