Index

Abstract Expressionism 143 Adorno, Theodor 92-5 aesthete 6, 71 aestheticism 6 , 70-2 aesthetics, definitions 4-5 Alberti, Leone Battista 33, 39 alterity 45, 46, 156 Althusser, Louis 113 anamorphosis 109 Apollonian tendency 59 Aquinas, St Thomas 24, 27-9 Aristotle 16--22 art for art's sake 6, 72 fictional status 18-20 phases 55 as religious instruction 30-1 Artaud , Antonin 167 Augustine, St 24-6, 27 aura 87-8 Aztecs 102-3, 144

Balzac, Honore de 80-1 Barthes, Roland 145-9 Bataille, Georges 101-4, 144 Baudrillard, Jean 140-4 Baumgarten, Gottlieb 4, 169 beauty and cognition 28- 9 subjective appreciation 48 as transformative 171 Being 97 Benjamin, Walter 7, 86-92 Berger, John 120 body without organs 167 bourgeoisie 35, 68-9, 86--7, 139 Brecht, Bertolt 81-2

Capitalism 44, 67, 114-17, 141-2, 144 catharsis 21-2 chora 151 Clark, T.J. 138-9 Classical episteme 37-8 Communist aesthetics 83-5 consciousness, universal 53-4 Critical Realism 80

Debord, Guy 114-18, 120 deconstruction 157-8 Deleuze, Gilles 14, 165-8 delight 50 Derrida, Jacques 14, 156--9 detoumement 119 Dionysian tendency 59-60, 101 Dowland, John 32 Duchamp, Marcel 161-4 Dorer, Albrecht 32, 97

Enlightenment 46 expenditure, philosophy of 102-3 experience, nature of 7 extreme, pursuit of 104

feminist aesthetics 155 Ficino, Marcilio 31 Foucault, Michel 37-8, 40 Freud, Sigmund 57, 62-6, 150 Fried, Michael 123-4, 168

Gericault, Theodore 76, 77 Giotto 36, 153 Greenberg, Clement 123-4, 168

Hegel, G.W.F. 52-7 Heidegger, Martin 96-100, 132, 159 Hellenism 70 hermeneutics 100 Holbein, Hans 109, 120, 154 Homer 11 hysteria 166, 168

ideology 78, 113 imagists 91 lrigaray, Luce 155, 156

Jameson, Fredric 129-36, 140 jouissance 111 , 153-4 Joyce, James 64, 152

Kafka, Franz 95 Kant, Immanuel 46--52, 112, 144,

158, 169 Kandinsky, Wassily 74 Keats, John 3, 170-1 Kristeva, Julia 149-56

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