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Cohen, Jonathan, and Aaron Meskin. "On the Epistemic Value of Photographs." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 62, no. 2 (2004): 197-210. Gregory Currie (1999), 'Visible traces: Documentary and the contents of Photographs', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 57 (3), 285-97. Dretske, Fred. Knowledge and the Flow of Information. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1981. Lopes, Dominic. Understanding Pictures. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996. Walton, Kendall. "Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things." In Philosophy and the Visual Arts: Seeing and Abstracting, edited by Andrew Harrison, 277-300. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1987. WEEK 10: PHOTOGRAPHY AS AN ART Tutorial Texts Roger Scruton, "Photography and Representation" in Neill and Ridley (eds.), Arguing about Art, 1st and 2nd eds., and in his The Aesthetic Understanding Nigel Warburton, "Individual Style in Photographic Art", Arguing about Art, 2nd ed. (SL, DL); also British Journal of Aesthetics, 36, 1996, pp. 389-97 (DL). Further Reading Dominic McIver Lopes, "The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency", Mind, 112, 2003, pp. 433-48. William King, "Scruton and Reasons for looking at Photographs" in Neill and Ridley (eds.), Arguing about Art, 1st and 2nd eds. (SL, DL). Patrick Maynard, “Photography”, in Gaut and Lopes (eds) The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, pp477-490. Robert Wicks, "Photography as a Representational Art", British Journal of Aesthetics, 29, 1989, pp. 1-9 (DL). WEEK 11: CINEMA Tutorial Texts Noel Carroll, “The Power of Movies”, in Lamarque (ed) Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art, 2004, pp485-497. Robert Hopkins, 'What do we see in film?', Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66:2 (2008) pp.149-159 Further Reading Catharine Abell, “Cinema as a Representational Art”, British Journal of Aesthetics, 50, 2010. Berys Gaut, "Cinematic Art", Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 60, 2002, pp. 299-312. Berys Gaut, “Film”, in Levinson (ed), The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics, Oxford University Press, 2005. Murray Smith, “Film”, in Berys Gaut and Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics 76
8. SAMPLE EXAM PAPER (for guidance only) PH20951: AESTHETICS 2 Hours Candidates should answer TWO questions. 1. Does conceptual art manifest a challenge to traditional definitions of art, and if so, why? 2. What role do listener’s responses play in determining what a musical passage expresses? 3. What does cinematic realism consist in? 4. What role do an artist’s intentions play in determining the meaning of her works? 5. Do we literally see things through photographs of them? 6. Is photography an independent art form? 7. Are artworks objectively either good or bad? 77
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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES SCHOOL OF SOC
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Learning Outcomes On successful com
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TOTAL: 200 hours Prompt arrival at
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Makin, Gideon. The Metaphysicians o
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Beiser (ed.) Cambridge Companion to
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