JAAC - The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

volume 66 issue 3 (summer 2008)

Call for Nominations: The 2008 Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize

Call for Papers: The 2009 John Fisher Memorial Prize

articles

On the Conundrum of Form and Material in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory
gerald l. burns
225

Kant's Justified Dismissal of Artistic Sublimity
uygar abaci
237

Third-Party Uses of Music and Musical Pragmatics
justin london
253

Sympathy and Insight in Aristotle's Poetics
paul a. taylor
265

The Desire-Frustration Theory of Suspense
aaron smuts
281

The Rational Justification of Aesthetic Judgments
maría josé alcaraz león
291

 

book reviews

James Hamilton, The Art of Theater
Reviewed by tzachi zamir
301

Ronald Moore, Natural Beauty: A Theory of Aesthetics Beyond the Arts
Reviewed by dan villancourt
303

Edward Winters, Aesthetics and Architecture
Reviewed by larry shiner
305

Arindam Dutta, The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of Its Global Reproducibility
Reviewed by david goldblatt
307

Claire Bishop, ed., Participation
Reviewed by clark buckner
309

James A. W. Heffernan, Cultivating Picturacy: Visual Art and Verbal Interventions
Reviewed by ian verstegen
311

Sally Banes, Before, Between, and Beyond: Three Decades of Dance Writing
Reviewed by renee conroy
312

Peter Kivy, Music, Language, and Cognition: And Other Essays in the Aesthetics of Music
Reviewed by anthony gritten
314

Paul Crowther, Defining Art, Creating the Canon: Artistic Value in an Era of Doubt
Reviewed by michelle lavigne
317

Mark Turner, ed., The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity
Reviewed by phil jenkins
319

John Sallis, Topographies
Amy Dempsey, Destination Art
Reviewed by glenn parsons
321

books received
325

contributors
327