Meaning In The Arts, Volume XXVII [Paperback]

This Volume illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts-in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include theory in the arts; interpretations of meaning; objectivity in meaning; and the consumer as a participant in art.

• Brings together articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts, which illuminate the notion of meaning in the arts.
  
• Addresses meaning in literature, painting, music, and dance.
  
• Explores the relationship between authorial intentions and the viewer's interpretation of meaning; the possibility (or impossibility) of objective meaning; and the role of the consumer as a participant in the work of art.

1. Ode to Meaning: Robert Pinsky (Boston University).

2. Resurrecting the Author: Nicholas Wolterstorff (Yale University).

3. Meaning in the Work of Art: A Hermeneutic Perspective: Charles Guignon (University of South Florida).

4. Words for the Wordless: D.Z. Philips (Claremont Graduate University).

5. Musical Thinking: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland).

6. Is Twelve-Tone Music Artistically Defective?: Diana Raffman (Ohio State University).

7. Self-Mutilation, Interpretation, and Controversial Art: Jill Sigman (Artistic Director, jillsigman/thinkdance, New York City).

8. Time in Movies: Gideon Yaffe (University of Southern California).

9. Philosophy Screened: Experiencing The Matrix: Tom Wartenberg (Mount Holyoke College).

10. The Self-Disarmament of God As Evolutionary Pre-Adaption: Jack Miles (Getty Research Institute).

Midwest Studies in Philosophy 1976-2005.

Contributors

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