Citation Information
Article Title: Philosophy of art
Website Name: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
Date Published: 14 March 2019
URL: https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophy-of-art
Access Date: August 10, 2019
Additional Reading
General and introductory treatments of the philosophy of art include Malcolm Budd, Values of Art: Pictures, Poetry, Music (1996); and Noël Carroll, Philosophy of Art: A Contemporary Introduction (1999).
Groundbreaking modern studies are Benedetto Croce, Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic, rev. ed. (1953), originally published in 1902; R.G. Collingwood, The Principles of Art (1938, reissued 1958); Susanne Katherina Lauth Langer, Philosophy in a New Key, 3rd ed. (1957), originally published in 1942, and Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art (1953); Nelson Goodman, Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols (1968); George Dickie, Art and the Aesthetic: An Institutional Analysis (1974); and Arthur Danto, The Transformation of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (1981). Matthew Kieran (ed.), Contemporary Debates in Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art (2006), is a collection of essays on various topics.
The history of the subject is covered in Monroe C. Beardsley, Aesthetics from Classical Greece to the Present (1966); Wladyslaw Tatarkiewicz, History of Aesthetics, 3 vols. (1970–74); and Peter Kivy (ed.), Essays on the History of Aesthetics (1992).