Books in the Routledge Research in Aesthetics series

This volume aims to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. It is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one another?

This book brings together philosophers, literary theorists, and art historians to argue for the philosophical significance of Michael Fried's art history and criticism. Fried's analyses of absorption and theatricality throw new light on problems in aesthetics, as well as questions surrounding authenticity, scepticism, modernity, and politics.

This collection of essays is devoted to the philosophical examination of the aesthetics of videogames. As a burgeoning medium of artistic expression, videogames raise entirely new aesthetic concerns, particularly concerning their ontology, interactivity, and aesthetic value.

This book brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy.

This is the first collection of essays focused on the many faceted work of Kendall Walton. Walton provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the arts in terms of the human capacity of make-believe that shows how different arts can be explained in terms of complex structures of pretense, perception, imagining, empathy and emotion.

This volume brings together philosophical and interdisciplinary perspectives on improvisation. The contributions connect the theoretical dimensions of improvisation with different viewpoints on its practice in the arts and the classroom.

This volume comprises ten essays at the cutting edge of thinking about sculpture in philosophical terms, representing approaches to sculpture from the perspectives of both Anglo-American and European philosophy. Some of the essays are historically situated, while others are more straightforwardly conceptual.

This volume aims to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. It is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one ano