Marvelous Images: On Values and the Arts

by Kendall L. Walton

Book Overview

The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation or photography. In "'How Marvelous!': Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value" Walton introduces an innovative account of aesthetic value, and in this and other essays he explores relations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195177940
• ISBN13: 9780195177947
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"