1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture
Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind. The editors have organized the chapters across eight broader sections:
- Artforms
- History
- Questions of form, style, and address
- Art and science
- Comparisons among the arts
- Questions of value
- Philosophers of art
- Institutional questions
Individual topics include art and cognitive science, evolutionary origins of art, art and perception, pictorial realism, artistic taste, style, issues of race and gender, art and religion, art and philosophy, and the end of art. The work of selected philosophers is also discussed, including Diderot, Hegel, Ruskin, Gombrich, Goodman, Wollheim, and Danto. With an introduction from the editors and comprehensively indexed, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture serves as a point of entry to the subject for a broad range of students as well as an up-to-date reference for scholars in the field.
Introduction
Noël Carroll and Jonathan Gilmore
Part I: Artforms
1. Philosophical Approaches to Painting
Jonathan Gilmore
2. Sculpture
David Davies
3. Printmaking: Impressions, Editions, and Reproductions
Roy T. Cook
4. Erotic Art and the Nude
Hans Maes
5. On Regarding Digital Art
Shelby Moser
6. Performance Art
David Davies
7. You Had to Be There: Installation as Art Form and Argument
Karen Gover
Part II: History
8. Antiquity
Nickolas Pappas
9. Ideas of Art in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Carole Talon-Hugon
10. What Was Fine Art? Painting and Sculpture Before and After the Reign of the Fine Arts
Larry Shiner
11. Early Modern European Philosophy of Painting and Sculpture
J. Colin McQuillan
12. An Art History Made for and by Artists
David Carrier
13. End of Art and the Plastic Arts
Stephen Snyder
14. The Avant-Garde
Noel Carroll
Part III: Questions of Form, Style, and Address
15. Style
Frank Boardman
16. Pictorial Organization
Bence Nanay
17. Realism
Catharine Abell
18. Functional Art
Glenn Parsons
Part IV: Art and Science
19. Evolution and the Fine Arts
Tobyn De Marco
20. Cognitive Psychology
William P. Seeley
Part V: Comparisons among the Arts
21. Fine Arts of Display: Photography, Painting, Drawing
Patrick Maynard
22. Philosophy of Photography Naturalized
Scott Walden
23. Painting and Sculpture in Their Relation to Architecture
Carole Talon-Hugon
24. Painting and Theater
Susan L. Feagin
25. Painterly Aspirations in Poetry
John Gibson
26, Painting and Comics
Henry John Pratt
27. The Medium (Re)viewed: Returning to an Excursis on Painting, Film, and Photography
Kristin Boyce
28. "Theater Dance as a Complex Artform"
Renee M. Conroy
Part VI: Questions of Value
29. Religion
Gordon Graham
30. "Art Is How We Love Ourselves Now": Race, Fine Art, and the Dignity of Criticism
Paul C. Taylor
31. Philosophical Works of Art
Thomas E. Wartenberg
32. Pittura: A Gendered Template for Painting
Peg Brand Weiser
33. Truth and Truthfulness in Painting
John Hyman
Part VII: Philosophers of Art
34. Diderot [1713–1784]
Jacques Morizot
35. Hegel on Sculpture and Painting
Richard Eldridge
36. John Ruskin on Painting and Sculpture
Paul Guyer
37. Nelson Goodman’s Theory of Expression and Exemplification: Problems and Halting Solutions
John Bender
38. E. H. Gombrich
William P. Seeley
39. Richard Wollheim
Derek Matravers
40. Arthur Danto
Noel Carroll
Part VIII: Institutional Questions
41. Forgery and Authenticity
Darren Hudson Hick
42. Museum as Mirror: The Art Museum as Cultural Mirror
Curtis L. Carter
43. Conservation and Restoration
Rafael De Clercq
44. Space Is Place: Why the Placement of Sculpture Matters
Jason Miller
45. Taste for Painting and Sculpture
Stephanie Ross
Biography
Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, CUNY, the author of 19 books, editor or coeditor of eight volumes, a former journalist, and the author of five documentaries.
Jonathan Gilmore is Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center and Baruch College, CUNY. He is coeditor of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. His most recent book is Apt Imaginings: Feelings for Fictions and Other Creatures of the Mind (2020), which was awarded the 2021 Outstanding Monograph Prize by the American Society for Aesthetics.
