JAAC - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

volume 59 number 1 (winter 2001)

Notice: Blackwell to Publish the JAAC

Call for Proposals:
JAAC Symposia and Special Issues

Notes from the Editor

 

symposium: the historicity of the eye

Seeing and Showing
arthur c. danto
1

Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception
noël carroll
11

The Invisible Content of Visual Art
mark rollins
19

When Pictures Are Present: Arthur Danto and the Historicity of the Eye
whitney davis
29

The Pigeon within Us All: A Reply to Three Critics
arthur c. danto
39

 

articles

Borge's "Pierre Menard": Philosophy or Literature?
jorge j. e. gracia
45

Moral Prejudice and Aesthetic Deformity: Rereading Hume's "Of the Standard of Taste"
michelle mason
59

Sensitivity, Sensibility, and Aesthetic Realism
john w. bender
73

Expressiveness and Expression in Music and Poetry
robert stecker
85

 

book reviews

Clement Greenberg, Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste
Reviewed by richard kuhns
97

Denis Diderot, Diderot on Art--I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting
Denis Diderot, Diderot on Art--II: The Salon of 1767
Reviewed by david carrier
99

Charles Rosen, Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen
Reviewed by laurent stern
101

Hal Forster, The Return of the Real
Reviewed by charles altieri
103

Beat Wyss, Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity
Reviewed by dan karlholm
105

Salim Kemal, Ivan Gaskell, and Daniel W. Conway, eds., Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts
Alexandre Kostka and Ivan Wohlfarth, eds., Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds"
Reviewed by gary shapiro
107

Neal Benezra and Olga Viso, eds., Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century
Reviewed by marcia muelder eaton
108

Thomas Wartenberg, Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism
Reviewed by dan flory
110

Phyllis Pray Bober, Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy
Reviewed by renée cox lorraine
111

Michele Marra, ed., Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader
Reviewed by mark meli
113

Michael Mitias, ed., Architecture and Civilization
Reviewed by patricia m. matthews
115

Richard Hill, Designs and Their Consequences
Neil Leach, The Anaesthetics of Architecture
Reviewed by alex t. anderson
117

Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert, eds., Readings on Color, Volume 1: The Philosophy of Color
Alex Byrne and David R. Hilbert, eds., Readings on Color, Volume 2: The Science of Color
Reviewed by m. carleton simpson
118