Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
dickie , george . Art and Value
young , james o . Art and Knowledge
krausz , michael , ed. Is There a Single Right Interpretation
cavell , stanley . Cities of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life
hill , r. kevin . Nietzsche's Critiques: The Kantian Foundations of His Thought
spitzer , michael . Metaphor and Musical Thought
hogan , patrick colm . The Mind and Its Stories: Narrative Universals and Human Emotion
smith , greg m . Film Structure and the Emotion System
stern , radu . Against Fashion: Clothing as Art, 1850–1930
troy , nancy j . Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion
onians , john . Atlas of World Art     

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Books reviewed:
Brand, Peg Zeglin, ed. Beauty Matters .
Danto, Arthur C. After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History .
Rothman, William. Documentary Film Classics .
Gould, Timothy. Hearing Things: Voice and Method in the Writing of Stanley Cavell .
Carroll, Noël. Theories of Art Today .
Kupfer, Joseph. Visions of Virtue in Popular Film .
Hutcheon, Linda, and Michael Hutcheon. Opera: Desire, Disease, Death .
Bal, Mieke. Quoting Caravaggio: Contemporary Art, Preposterous History     

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iseminger , gary . The Aesthetic Function of Art .
bermúdez , josé luis and sebastian gardner , eds. Art and Morality .
ritivoi , andreea deciu , ed. Interpretation and Its Objects: Studies in the Philosophy of Michael Krausz .
lewis , peter b ., ed. Wittgenstein, Aesthetics and Philosophy .
deleuze , gilles . Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation .
fraleigh , sondra . Dancing Identity: Metaphysics in Motion .
mccarren , felicia . Dancing Machines: Choreographies of the Age of Mechanical Reproduction .
mcclellan , andrew , ed. Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium .
tilden , scott j ., ed. Architecture for Art: American Art Museums 1938–2008 .
jullien , françois . In Praise of Blandness: Proceeding from Chinese Thought and Aesthetics .     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Allen Richard and Malcolm Turvey (eds.), Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts
Brady Emily and Jerrold Levinson (eds.), Aesthetic Concepts: Essays after Sibley
Rob Van Gerwen (ed.), Richard Wollheim on the Art of Painting: Art as Expression and Representation
Keith Moxey, The Practice of Persuasion: Paradox & Power in Art History
James J. Sheehan, Museums in the German Art World from the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
Theodore Gracyk, I Wanna Be Me: Rock Music and the Politics of Identity
Renée Cox Lorraine, Music, Tendencies, and Inhibitions: Reflections on a Theory of Leonard Meyer
Naomi Cumming, The Sonic Self: Musical Subjectivity and Signification
Krystyna Wilkoszewska (ed.), Aesthetics of the Four Elements: Earth, Water, Fire, Air     

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Books Reviewed
sleinis, edgar e. Art and Freedom .
dissanayake, ellen. Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began .
pothen, philip. Nietzsche and the Fate of Art .
zak, albin j. iii. The Poetics of Rock: Cutting Tracks, Making Records .
ryan, david. Talking Painting: Dialogues with Twelve Contemporary Abstract Painters .
budd, malcolm. The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature .
brady, emily. Aesthetics of the Natural Environment .
oliver, kelly and benigno trigo. Noir Anxiety .
ondaatje, michael. The Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film .     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Larry Shiner, The Invention of Art: A Cultural History
Dabney Townsend, Hume's Aesthetic Theory: Taste and Sentiment
Mark Cheetham, Kant, Art, and Art History: Moments in Discipline
Robert J. Yanal, Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction
Willie van Peer and Seymour Chatman, eds., New Perspectives on Narrative Perspective
James J. Winchester, Aesthetics across the Color Line: Why Nietzsche (Sometimes) Can't Sing the Blues
Brain Jay Wolf, Vermeer and the Invention of Seeing
Robert Nelson, ed., Visuality Before and Beyond the Renaissance: Seeing as Others Saw
Simon Critchley, On Humour
Maria DiBattista, Fast-Talking Dames     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Braun, Emily. Mario Sironi and Italian Modernism: Art and Politics Under Fascism.
Chua, Daniel K. L. Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning
Izenberg, Gerald. Modernism and Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky Through World War I
Jarzombek, Mark. The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture, History
Krausz, Michael. Limits of Rightness .
Lang, Paul Henry. Musicology and Performance .
Lin, Maya. Boundaries
Lorand, Ruth. Aesthetic Order: A Philosophy of Order, Beauty and Art
Thomas, Nicholas. Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture
Thomasson, Amie. Fiction and Metaphysics
Tiffany, Daniel. Toy Medium: Materialism and Modern Lyric     

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Books reviewed in this article:
Henry E. Allison, Kant's Theory of Taste: A Reading of the Critique of Aesthetic Judgement
Noël Carroll, Beyond Aesthetics: Philosophical Essays
Regenia Gagnier, The Insatiability of Human Wants: Economics and Aesthetics in Market Society
Carol Gibson–Wood, Jonathan Richardson: Art Theorist of the English Enlightenment
Jonathan Gilmore, The Life of a Style: Beginnings and Endings in the Narrative History of Art
Berel Lang, Holocaust Representation: Art within the Limits of History and Ethics
Janet McCracken, Taste and the Household: The Domestic Aesthetic and Moral Reasoning
Matthew Rampley, Nietzsche, Aesthetics, and Modernity
Carl Schachter, Unfoldings: Essays in Schenkerian Theory and Analysis
Michael Tratner, Deficits and Desires: Economics and Sexuality in Twentieth–Century Literature
Nick Zangwill, The Metaphysics of Beauty
Semir Zeki, Inner Vision: An Exploration of Art and the Brain     

Book Reviews

Books Reviewed:
benjamin , roger . Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa 1880–1930
beaulieu , jill and mary roberts , eds. Orientalism's Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography
odin , steve . Artistic Detachment in Japan and the West: Psychic Distance in Comparative Aesthetics
erjavec , aleš , ed. Postmodernism and the Postsocialist Condition: Politicized Art Under Late Socialism
paskow , alan . The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation
carbonell , bettina messias , ed. Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts
carroll , joseph . Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature
smith , peter f . The Dynamics of Delight: Architecture and Aesthetics
sterne , jonathan . The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction
picart , caroline joan s . Remaking the Frankenstein Myth on Film: Between Laughter and Horror     

The "style scheme" grounds perception of paintings

We studied the formation of style scheme (identification of the style that characterizes an artist) presenting 100 participants aesthetic visual stimuli. Participants were Spanish university students who volunteered: 72 women, 28 men of mean age 22.8 yr. Among those 50 were enrolled in History of Art and 50 students in Psychology. Stimuli belonged to different categories--High Art (pictures of well-known artists, like Van Gogh)/Popular Art (decorative pictures like Christmas postcards) and Representational (pictures with explicit meaning content, like a landscape)/Abstract (pictures without explicit meaning content, like Pollock's colored stains). Analysis using Signal Detection Theory techniques focused on how participants discriminate representational and abstract pictures. With High Art stimuli, participants can better discriminate representational paintings than abstract ones. However, the difference in discrimination between representational and abstract pictures diminishes among participants studying History of Art. It seems that prior education in art favors forming style schemes and to some extent enables the participant to detect the "meaning" in High Art abstract paintings.     

A Theory of Art

Book Information A Theory of Art. A Theory of Art Berger Karol Oxford Oxford University Press 2000 287 Hardback By Berger Karol. Oxford University Press. Oxford. Pp. 287. Hardback:,     

Book Reviews

Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, Harvard University, four videos on teaching: The Art of Discussion Leading; The Art of Lecture; Race in the Classroom; Women in the Classroom Poorman, Mark L., ed., Labors from the Heart: Mission and Ministry in a Catholic University     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
mattick, paul. Art in Its Time: Theories and Practices of Modern Aesthetics
carroll, noël. Engaging the Moving Image
davies, stephen. Themes in the Philosophy of Music
shapiro, gary. Archaeologies of Vision: Foucault and Nietzsche on Seeing and Saying
eldridge, richard. The Persistence of Romanticism: Essays in Philosophy and Literature
de bolla, peter. Art Matters
hogan, patrick colm. Cognitive Science, Literature, and the Arts: A Guide for Humanists
currie, gregory and ianravenscroft. Recreative Minds
kolnai, aurel. On Disgust     

Book Reviews

Charles Altieri, Postmodernisms Now: Essays on Contemporaneity in the Arts Jean‐Marie Schaefer, The Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger Karol Berger, A Theory of Art Tiffany Sutton, The Classification of Visual Art: A Philosophical Myth and Its History James Kirwan, Beauty Richard Wollheim, On the Emotions Beryl Schlossman, Objects of Desire: The Madonnas of Modernism Stan Godlovitch, Musical Performance John Dixon Hunt, Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory Trevor Ponech, What Is Non‐Fiction Cinema? On the Very Idea of Motion Picture Communication     

Members of staff of philosophy departments in Australasian Universities as at December 1970

Book Information A Philosophy of Mass Art. A Philosophy of Mass Art Noël Carroll Oxford Clarendon Press 1998 x + 425 Paperback Aus.$45.00 By Noël Carroll. Clarendon Press. Oxford. Pp. x + 425. Paperback:Aus.$45.00,     

On austin's chase,chance, and creativity: The lucky art of novelty

Chase, Chance, and Creativity: The Lucky Art of Novelty James H. Austin, 2003, New York: Columbia University Press, 246 pages.     

Therapists and Psychotherapy

The Grit and Grist of Psychotherapy: The Inspirations of John Warkentin. Voices: The Art and Science of Psychotherapy, 1981, 17.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed:
Greenberg, Clement. Homemade Esthetics: Observations on Art and Taste .
Diderot, Denis. Diderot on Art—I: The Salon of 1765 and Notes on Painting .
Diderot, Denis. Diderot on Art—II: The Salon of 1767 .
Rosen, Charles. Romantic Poets, Critics, and Other Madmen .
Foster, Hal. The Return of the Real .
Wyss, Beat. Hegel's Art History and the Critique of Modernity .
Kemal, Salim, Ivan Gaskell, and Daniel W. Conway, eds. Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts .
Kostka, Alexandre, and Ivan Wohlfarth, eds. Nietzsche and "An Architecture of Our Minds."
Benezra, Neal, and Olga Viso, eds. Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late Twentieth Century .
Wartenberg, Thomas E. Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism .
Bober, Phyllis Pray. Art, Culture and Cuisine: Ancient and Medieval Gastronomy .
Marra, Michele, ed. and trans. Modern Japanese Aesthetics: A Reader .
Mitias, Michael, ed. Architecture and Civilization .
Hill, Richard. Designs and Their Consequences .
Leach, Neil. The Anaesthetics of Architecture .
Byrne, Alex, and David R. Hilbert, eds. Readings on Color, Volume 1: The Philosophy of Color .
Byrne, Alex, and David R. Hilbert, eds. Readings on Color, Volume 2: The Science of Color .     

REVIEWS

Books reviewed:
David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth Reviewed by Oleg Bychkov
Ingolf U. Dalferth, Die Wirklichkeit des Möglichen: Hermeneutische Religionsphilosophie Reviewed by Matthias Gockel
Vincent J. Miller, Consuming Religion: Christian Faith and Practice in a Consumer Culture Reviewed by Michael L. Budde
John David Dawson, Christian Figural Reading and the Fashioning of Identity Reviewed by John C. Cavadini
Stanley Hauerwas, Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence Reviewed by Clifford Green
Stephen van Erp, The Art of Theology: Hans Urs von Balthasar's Theological Aesthetics and the Foundations of Faith Reviewed by Mark Alan Bowald
John Inge, A Christian Theology of Place Reviewed by Belden C. Lane
Graham Hughes, Worship as Meaning: A Liturgical Theology for Late Modernity Reviewed by Jim Fodor
Denys Turner, Faith, Reason and the Existence of God Reviewed by David Burrell
Francesca Aran Murphy, Art and Intellect in the Philosophy of Étienne Gilson Reviewed by Trent Pomplun     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
BUROS, OSCAR KRISEN. (Ed.) The Fifth Mental Measurements Yearbook .
JANIS, IRVING L., HOVLAND, CARL I., ET AL. Personality and Persuasibility .
SHARTLE, CARROLL L. Occupational Information: Its Development and Application .
YODER, DALE. Personnel Principles and Policies .
GALANTER, EUGENE. (Ed.) Automatic Teaching: The State of the Art .
KOONTZ, HAROLD, AND O'DONNELL, CYRIL. Readings in Management .
LUCE, R. DUNCAN. Individual Choice Behavior: A Theoretical Analysis .
HODNETT, EDWARD. The Art of Working with People .
WARNER, W. LLOYD AND MARTIN, NORMAN H. (Eds.) Industrial Man: Businessmen and Business Organizations .
TAYLOR, JAMES H. Personnel Administration: Evaluation and Executive Control .
FARNSWORTH, P. R. AND MCNEMAR, Q. Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 11, 1960 .