Title: Marvelous images : on values and the arts /
Authors: Walton, Kendall L., 1939-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Aesthetics.; Art Philosophy; Photography Philosophy.
Abstract: The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of issues concerning the arts. Walton introduces an account of aesthetic value, and explores relations between aesthetic value and values of other kinds. Postscripts have been added to several of the reprinted essays.
Contents: "How marvelous!": toward a theory of aesthetic value -- Postscripts to "'how marvelous!'" -- Test of time -- Morals in fiction and fictional morality -- On the (so-called) puzzle of imaginative resistance -- Pictures and hobby horses: make-believe beyond childhood -- Transparent pictures: on the nature of photographic realism -- Postscripts to "transparent pictures": clarifications and to do's -- On pictures and photographs: objections answered -- Seeing-in and seeing fictionally -- Depiction, perception, and imagination: responses to Richard Wollheim -- Experiencing still photographs: what do you see and how long do you see it? -- Categories of Art -- Style and the Products and Processes of Art.