volume 63 number 4 (fall 2005)

articles

The Artist's Sanction in Contemporary Art
2005 John Fisher Memorial Prize Essay
sherri irvin
315

Race, Rationality, and Melodrama: Aesthetic Response and the Case
of Oscar Micheaux
dan flory
327

André Bazin's Ontology of Photographic and Film Imagery
jonathan friday
339

Spectacularly Bad: Hume and Aristotle on Tragic Spectacle
e. m. dadlez
351

How Perspective Could Be a Symbolic Form
allister neher
359

Inseparable Insight: Reconciling Cognitivism and Formalism in Aesthetics
katherine thomson-jones
375

book reviews

Gary Iseminger, The Aesthetic Function of Art
Reviewed by thomas adajian
385

José Luis Bermúdez and Sebastian Gardner, eds., Art and Morality
Reviewed by deborah knight
386

Andreea Deciu Ritiovi, ed., Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy
of Michael Krausz
Reviewed by john gibson
388

Peter B. Lewis, ed., Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy
Reviewed by anton alterman
390

Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Reviewed by russell ford
392

Sondra Fraleigh, Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion
Felicia McCarren, Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of
Mechanical Reproduction
Reviewed by francis raven
394

Andrew McClellan, ed., Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium
Reviewed by hilde hein
397

Scott J. Tilden, ed., Architecture for Art: American Art Museums 1938-2008
Reviewed by larry shiner
399

Francois Jullien, In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and
Aesthetics
Reviewed by barbara sandrisser
400