volume 65 number 1 (winter 2007)
contents
2007 John Fisher Memorial Prize
Notes from the Editor
special issue: global theories of the arts and aesthetics
Introduction
susan l. feagin
1
The Sounding of the World: Aesthetic Reflections on Traditional Gong
Music of Vietnam
philip alperson, nguyen chi ben, and to ngoc thanh
11
Balinese Aesthetics
stephen davies
21
Aesthetic and Spiritual Correlations in Javanese Gamelan Music
susan pratt walton
31
An Alchemy of Emotion: Rasa and Aesthetic Breakthroughs
kathleen marie higgins
43
Asian Ars Erotica and the Question of Sexual Aesthetics
richard shusterman
55
Islamic Aesthetics: An Alternative Way to Knowledge
jale nejdet erzen
69
Shikinen Sengu and the Ontology of Architecture in Japan
dominic mciver lopes
77
The Moral Dimension of Japanese Aesthetics
yuriko saito
85
The Ethics of Confucian Artistry
eric c. mullis
99
Subversive Strategies in Chinese Avant-Garde Art
mary bittner wiseman
109
Embodied Meanings, Isotypes, and Aesthetical Ideas
arthur c. danto
121
Art and Globalization: Then and Now
noël carroll
131