Aesthetics /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Lyas, Colin.
Imprint:	London ; Bristol, Pa. : UCL Press, 1997.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	Fundamentals of philosophy Fundamentals of philosophy (London, England)
Subject:	Aesthetics. Art -- Philosophy. Aesthetics. Art -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11118107

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ISBN:	0203136829 9780203136829 9781857286786 1857286782 9786610401437 6610401438 1135362971 9781135362973 1280401435 9781280401435 1135362963 9781135362966 1857285808 9781857285802
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-231) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	This introduction to the philosophy of art should be a useful text for students embarking on aesthetics courses.
Other form:	Print version: Lyas, Colin. Aesthetics. London ; Bristol, Pa. : UCL Press, 1997 1857286782

Table of Contents:

Part 1. Stories: nature's mirror - imitation, representation and imagination
Anglo-Kantian attitudes
""Ne'er so well expressed""
Tales from the Vienna woods - Wittgenstein and after
After the Holocaust - Adorno's challenge and Beuys' answer
Part 2. Problems: the proof of the pudding: subjectivism confronted
The empty tomb - authors and meaning
Helen Schlegel's Beethoven - morals and truths
Conclusions - the point of it all