JAAC - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

vol. 68 no. 3 (SUMMER 2010)

The 2011 John Fisher Memorial Prize

Call for Papers: Special Issue on the Media of Photography

 

articles

The Uselessness of Art
peter lamarque
The 2009 Richard Wollheim Memorial Lecture
205

The Importance of Being Earnest about the Definition and Metaphysics of Art
joseph margolis
215

Artistic Worth and Personal Taste
jerrold levinson
225

Actual Art, Possible Art, and Art's Definition
gregory currie
235

Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces
nicholas alden riggle
243

Using Artistic masterpieces as Philosophical Examples: The Case of Las Meninas
robert wicks

259

symposium: musical improvisation

A Topography of Improvisation
philip alperson
273

On Rhythm
garry l. hagberg
281

Repetition and Self-Realization in Jazz Improvization
john m. carvalho
285

The Ends of Improvisation
william day
291

Sonicism and Jazz Improvisation
gary iseminger
297

book reviews

Paisley Livingston and Carl Plantinga, eds., The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film
Reviewed by cynthia freeland
301

Arthur C. Danto, Andy Warhol
Reviewed by daniel herwitz
303

John Morreall, Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor
Reviewed by john marmysz
305

Barry C. Smith, ed., Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine
Reviewed by eric saidel
308

Fred Rush, On Architecture
Reviewed by david goldblatt
310

Richard Shusterman and Adele Tomlin, eds., Aesthetic Experience
Reviewed by christopher stevens
313

Bruno Forte, The Portal of Beauty: Towards a Theology of Aesthetics
Reviewed by dan vaillancourt
315

Jeanette Bicknell,Why Music Moves Us
Reviewed by christopher bartel
317

Scott Walden, ed., Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature
Reviewed by zed adams
319

Jason Gaiger, Aesthetics and Painting
Reviewed by david davies
320

 

BOOKS RECEIVED
325

CONTRIBUTORS
329