Description: I. The Idea of the Visual Arts1. The Aesthetic Attitude2. On the Nature of the Visual Arts3. The Myth of the Aesthetic Attitude4. Intuition, Technique and the Classification of the Arts5. On the Limits of Painting and PoetryII. Painting and the Pictorial Arts: Form and the Representation of the Visible World6. A Copy Theory of Representation7. Truth and the Stereotype: An Illusion Theory of Representation8. Reality Remade: A Denotation Theory of Representation9. Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things10. Caricature11. The Aesthetic Hypothesis: Significant Form and Aesthetic: EmotionIII. Painting and the Pictorial Arts: Wider Contexts12. Concerning the Spiritual in Art13. SymbolismA. Psychology14. Art and Thought15. Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood16. The Forms of Things Unknown17. Psychology and Art Today: A Summary and CritiqueB. Religion18. The Religious Significance of Painting19. The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern OblivionC. Politics and Society20. The Naked and the Nude21. Ways of Seeing Women22. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? Linda NochlinIV. Arts of the Camera23. The Ontology of the Photographic Image24. In Plato's Cave25. Photography, Vision, and Representation26. A Realist Theory of Film27. Film as Art28. Basic Film AestheticsV. Sculpture, Architecture, and Hand-Crafted Objects29. The Discovery of Space30. The Worship of Art: Notes on the New God31. Form and Function32. How Buildings Mean33. A Case for Figurative Architecture34. Art and Craft35. The Aesthetic of the Antique36. Use and ContemplationVI. Modern Developments37. Aesthetics and the Contemporary Arts38. The Artworld39. What is Art?: An Institutional Analysis40. The Ontological Peculiarity of Works of Art41. Piece: Contra AestheticsVII. Art History and Museums42. The History of Art as a Humanistic Discipline43. Style and Significance in Art History and Art Criticism44. Categories of Art45. Art and AuthenticityThe New Art History: A Symposium46. What is "New" About the "New Art History"? Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann47. Cultural Institutions and the Topography of Art History48. Old, New and Not So New Art History49. Showing and Saving, Looking and Learning: An Outsider's View of Art Museums50. Exhibits and ArtworksVIII. On the Borders of the Visual Arts51. Why Philosophy Neglects the Dance52. Sweet Kitsch53. Circus, Clowns and Culture54. Appreciation and the Natural Envoirnment55. Nature and Art: Some Dialectical Relationships56. Rain57. The Art of Personal Beauty58. Life as the Imitation of Art

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