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Expression theoriesIn Theodore Gracyk & Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music, Routledge. 2011.
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Shostakovich's Tenth symphony and the musical expression of cognitively complex emotionsIn Jenefer Robinson (ed.), Music & meaning, Cornell University Press. 1997.
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7On Interpretation: A Critical AnalysisJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 48 (2): 163-165. 1990.
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16Philosophies of arts: An essay in differencesPhilosophical Review 109 (1): 138-141. 2000.There are few writers on philosophical aesthetics who are such a pleasure to read as Peter Kivy, so a new book by him is always reason for celebration. In this latest volume all the Kivy virtues are on display: clear, careful argument and good sense, conveyed in an urbane and conversational style. The main theme of the book is that aestheticians have spent too much time discussing general theories of art that emphasize what the various art forms have in common, and not enough time examining the …Read more
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22The Idea of Form: Rethinking Kant's AestheticsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 313-315. 2004.
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39Quasi−Realism, Acquaintance, and The Normative Claims of Aesthetic JudgementBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 277-296. 2004.
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135On Richard WollheimBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 213-225. 2004.There was a deep continuity in Wollheim’s thought from his book on F. H. Bradley onward. His notion of the concept of art as deeply interiorized was inextricable from his sense of the psychological unity of the mind and the historical continuity of artistic tradition, seen on analogy with an inherited language. His study of pictorial representation pivoted on the innate psychological capacity of ‘seeing-in’, perceiving the represented subject in a surface from which it was seen as distinct but t…Read more
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9Environment and the Arts: Perspectives on Environmental AestheticsBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 311-313. 2004.
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19Interpretation and Construction, Art, Speech, and the LawBritish Journal of Aesthetics 44 (3): 303-304. 2004.
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Truth and empathy in the portraits of KokoschkaIn Hans Maes (ed.), Portraits and Philosophy, Routledge. 2020.
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11Ayni, Ora. The Resistance of Reference: Linguistics, Philosophy, and The Literary TextJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 50 (3): 258-259. 1992.
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148Aesthetic EmotionsThe Monist 103 (2): 205-222. 2020.This paper investigates what I call aesthetic emotions in the “traditional” sense going back to Burke and Kant. According to Kant, aesthetic pleasure is disinterested, and so maybe for Kant aesthetic emotions would be too, for Kant, but emotions by their very nature cannot be disinterested. After dismissing the idea that aesthetic emotions are a special kind of distanced emotions or refined emotions, I extract from the writings of Clive Bell, Peter Kivy, and Peter Lamarque the view that aestheti…Read more
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93This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human ObsessionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (1): 91-94. 2008.
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1057Expression And Expressiveness In ArtPostgraduate Journal of Aesthetics 4 (2): 19-41. 2007.The concept of expression in the arts is Janus-faced. On the one hand expression is an author-centered notion: many Romantic poets, painters, and musicians thought of themselves as pouring our or ex-pressing their own emotions in their artworks. And on the other hand, expression is an audience-centered notion, the communication of what is expressed by an author to members of an audience. Typically the word “expression” is used for the author-centered aspect of expression as a whole, and the word…Read more
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67Book ReviewsPeter. Goldie, The Emotions: A Philosophical Exploration.Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. 272. $55.00 (review)Ethics 114 (2): 346-350. 2004.
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42The Missing Person Found. Part II: Feelings for PicturesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 57 (4): 349-367. 2017.According to Dominic Lopes, expressiveness in pictures should be analyzed solely in terms of “expression looks” of various sorts, namely the look of a figure, a scene and/or a design. But, according to this view, it seems puzzling that expressive pictures should have any emotional effect on their audiences. Yet Lopes explicitly ties his “contour theory” of expression in pictures to empathic responses in spectators. Thus, despite his deflationary account of pictorial expression, he claims that pi…Read more
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28The Missing Person Found. Part I: Expressing Emotions in PicturesBritish Journal of Aesthetics 57 (3): 249-267. 2017.In Sight and Sensibility Dominic Lopes argues that expressiveness in pictures should be analyzed on the model of the “contour” theory of musical expressiveness, according to which an “expression” need not express anything about the inner psychological states of a person. According to his “contour theory of pictorial expression,” expression by scenes and designs requires “no being to whom the expressed emotion is attributable”. However, on this account expression has lost its fundamental raison d…Read more
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Deeper than Reason. Emotion and its Role in Literature, Music and ArtTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (1): 188-189. 2005.
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Deeper than Reason: Emotion and Its Role in Literature, Music, and ArtPhilosophy 81 (316): 375-379. 2006.
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Representation and Expression in the Arts: A Study of Some Recent TheoriesDissertation, University of Toronto (Canada). 1975.
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62Yet Again, ‘Between Absolute and Programme Music’British Journal of Aesthetics 55 (1): 19-37. 2015.In this paper, we contest Peter Kivy’s claim that there is a clear opposition between ‘absolute music’ and programme music and between musical form and musical expressiveness. We argue, on the contrary, that much music falls somewhere between absolute and programme music as Kivy conceives the categories, and that such music is often primarily organized not on purely formal principles but by means of the overall ‘expressive trajectory’ or ‘poetic idea’ of the piece. Kivy is dismissive of all ‘nar…Read more
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