ONE: ARTISTS: CONCEPTS OF CREATIVITY.

Plato: The Ion (Woodruff translation).

Wordsworth: Preface to the 1800 edition of Lyrical Ballads.

Nietzsche: "Attempt at a Self-Criticism," and extensive excerpts from sections 1-15 of The Birth

of Tragedy (Kaufmann translation).

Freud: "Creative Writers and Day-dreaming" (Grant Duff translation).

Eliot: "Tradition and the Individual Talent."

Beardsley: "On the Creation of Art."

John Dewey: "Having an Experience."

Hans-Georg Gadamer: "The Play of Art," from The Relevance of the Beautiful.

Christine Battersby: "The Male Gift" and "The Great +I AM'," Chapters 4 and 5 of Gender and Genius.

TWO: ARTWORKS.

Form and Content.

Clive Bell: "The Aesthetic Hypothesis," from Art.

Clement Greenberg: "Modernist Painting."

R. G. Collingwood: Excerpts from the Introduction and Book I, "Art and Not Art," of The Principles of Art.

R. K. Elliott: "Aesthetic Theory and the Experience of Art."

The Project of Definition

Morris Weitz: "The Role of Theory in Aesthetics."

Maurice Mandelbaum: "Family Resemblances and Generalizations Concerning the Arts."

Arthur C. Danto: "The Artworld."

George Dickie: "The New Institutional Theory of Art."

Jerrold Levinson: "Defining Art Historically."

Richard Eldridge: "Form and Content: An Aesthetic Theory of Art."

THREE: AUDIENCES.

The Logic of Taste.

David Hume: "Of the Standard of Taste."

Immanuel Kant: "Analytic of the Beautiful."

Edward Bullough, "Psychical Distance."

Frank Sibley, "Aesthetic Concepts.

Kendall Walton: "Categories of Art."

Stanley Cavell: "Aesthetic Judgment and a Philosophical Claim."

Arnold Isenberg: "Critical Communication."

Intention and Interpretation.

Dewey: "Having an Experience," from Art as Experience.

WimsattandBeardsley: "The Intentional Fallacy."

Roland Barthes: "The Death of the Author," from Image-Music-Text.

E. D. Hirsch: "In Defense of the Author" (Chapter 1 of Validity in Interpretation).

Richard Wollheim: "Criticism as Retrieval."

Michael Baxandall: "Intentional Visual Interest" from Chapter 2 of Patterns of Intention.

Jenefer Robinson: "Style and Personality in the Literary Work."

Beardsley: "The Testability of an Interpretation."

Stanley Fish: "Is There a Text in this Class?"

Susan Sontag: "Against Interpretation."

FOUR: ART: PURPOSES AND PERILS.

Plato: Republic, Excerpts from Book III (386-398b), and Book X (595-608b) (Lee translation).

Aristotle: Poetics, Chapters 1-15, first half of 17, 23-26 (Halliwell translation).

Leo Tolstoy: Excerpts from What is Art?

John Dewey: "Art and Civilization," from Art as Experience.

Theodor Adorno: "On the Fetish Character in Music and the Regression of Listening," from The Culture Industry.

Monroe C. Beardsley: "The Arts in the Life of Man," from Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism.

Linda Nochlin: "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?"