Tag: "aesthetics"

How Do Pictures Represent?

Marek Soszynski considers whether it couldn’t look like resemblance after all.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Art As Sensation: Four Painters As Philosophers Of Art

Patricia Railing explains the philosophical ideas behind some of abstract art’s most famous abstractions.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: The Arts]

Out Of The Blue

Kaisley Phillips tells a colourful story from Chicago in the summer of 1960.
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Prose]

Philosophical Twist

Thomas Wartenberg tells us his hunch about a cunning plan to market DVDs. Is turning epistemology into showbiz a good thing or a bad thing?
[Issue 57: September/October 2006: Films]

An Aesthetic Justification of Travel

Lindsay Oishi thinks you should travel to celebrate a particular object of art.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Articles]

The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics

Peter Rickman is inspired with beautiful thoughts by the Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics.
[Issue 52: August/September 2005: Books]

Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

by Charlotte Rigby
[Issue 51: June/July 2005: Obituary]

Why Abstract Painting Isn’t Music

Patricia Railing on the point of abstract art, and on how it works.
[Issue 50: March/April 2005: Articles]

A Perfumed Philosophy

A dialogue between Marcel Proust and his valet, overheard by Mike Fuller.
[Issue 48: October/November 2004: Articles]

Does the Philosophy of Art Have a Mind/Body Problem?

Christopher Perricone says that the short answer is “Yes” and the long answer is this article.
[Issue 46: May/June 2004: Articles]