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52Making Sense of Taste: Food and PhilosophyJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 59 (4): 421-423. 2001.
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5Gender and aesthetics: an introductionRoutledge. 2004.This fully illustrated introductory text looks at the key theories and thinkers within art from a philosophical viewpoint. Focusing on the role gender plays, the book covers the most pertinent topics within feminist aesthetics.
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5Beauty UnlimitedIndiana University Press. 2012.Emphasizing the human body in all of its forms, Beauty Unlimited expands the boundaries of what is meant by beauty both geographically and aesthetically. Peg Zeglin Brand and an international group of contributors interrogate the body and the meaning of physical beauty in this multidisciplinary volume. This striking and provocative book explores the history of bodily beautification; the physicality of socially or culturally determined choices of beautification; the interplay of gender, race, cla…Read more
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18On Distinguishing "Aesthetic" from "Artistic"The Journal of Aesthetic Education 11 (4): 45. 1977.
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170Gender and Aesthetics: An IntroductionRoutledge. 2004.Feminist approaches to art are extremely influential and widely studied across a variety of disciplines, including art theory, cultural and visual studies, and philosophy. Gender and Aesthetics is an introduction to the major theories and thinkers within art and aesthetics from a philosophical perspective, carefully introducing and examining the role that gender plays in forming ideas about art. It is ideal for anyone coming to the topic for the first time. Organized thematically, the book intro…Read more
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234Aesthetics: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.Philosophers have considered questions raised by the nature of art, of beauty, and critical appreciation since ancient times, and the discipline of aesthetics has a long tradition that stretches from Plato to the present
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Joseph H. Kupfer, Experience As Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life (review)Philosophy in Review 4 266-267. 1984.
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53Fear and Disgust: the Sublime and the SublateRevue Internationale de Philosophie 250 (4): 367-379. 2009.
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14Instruments of the eye: Shortcuts to perspectiveJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (2): 139-146. 1989.
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76Disgust and AestheticsPhilosophy Compass 7 (11): 753-761. 2012.Disgust is an emotion that is visceral, reactive, and uncomfortable. It is also purposively aroused by art in ways that contribute substantially to the meaning of a work. In such cases “aesthetic disgust” is a component of understanding and appreciation. Disgust comes in many varieties, including the humorous, the horrid, and the tragic. The responses it elicits can be strong or subtle, but few are actually pleasant. Therefore aesthetic disgust raises an ancient question: how is it that emotions…Read more
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46Making sense of taste: food & philosophyCornell University Press. 1999.Korsmeyer (philosophy, State U. of New York-Buffalo) disagrees with the centuries of philosophers before her that taste is beneath the dignity of the field. She explores how it gained such a low esteem, parallels between notions of aesthetic and gustatory taste, how the sense works scientifically, the multiple components of the experience, its various meanings in art and literature, and its sacred dimension. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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85Disputing tasteThe Philosophers' Magazine 45 70-76. 2009.The sense of taste falls low on the hierarchy of the senses because it seems a poor conduit for knowledge of the external world; it directs attention inward rather than outward; its pleasures are sensuous and bodily, prone to overindulgence that distracts from higher human endeavours; and its objects are at best merely pleasant, not of the highest aesthetic value. Such is the traditional assessment; now let us analyse its justice
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34AESTHETICS: Perceptions, Pleasures, Arts: Considering AestheticsIn Janet A. Kourany (ed.), Philosophy in a Feminist Voice: Critiques and Reconstructions, Princeton University Press. pp. 145-172. 1997.
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11Disputing tasteThe Philosophers' Magazine 45 70-76. 2009.The sense of taste falls low on the hierarchy of the senses because it seems a poor conduit for knowledge of the external world; it directs attention inward rather than outward; its pleasures are sensuous and bodily, prone to overindulgence that distracts from higher human endeavours; and its objects are at best merely pleasant, not of the highest aesthetic value. Such is the traditional assessment; now let us analyse its justice.
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3Joseph H. Kupfer, Experience As Art: Aesthetics in Everyday Life Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 4 (6): 266-267. 1984.
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50Literary Philosophers: Borges, Calvino, Eco (edited book)Routledge. 2002.First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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66Aesthetic deception: On encounters with the pastJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (2). 2008.
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1253Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics (edited book)Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995.Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics takes a fresh look at the history of aesthetics and at current debates within the philosophy of art by exploring the ways in which gender informs notions of art and creativity, evaluation and interpretation, and concepts of aesthetic value. Multiple intellectual traditions have formed this field, and the discussions herein range from consideration of eighteenth century legacies of ideas about taste, beauty, and sublimity to debates about the relevance of post…Read more
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