What Art Is: The
Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand
What Art Is: The
Esthetic Theory of Ayn RandTraditional Meanings of the Term "Art"What the Ordinary Person Thinks The Cartoonists The Journalists Prime-Time Television The Ubiquitous Question: "But Is It Art?" The Experts Speak The Art Historians The Critics Need for a Valid Theory and Definition of Art The Default of Philosophy Ayn Rand's Theory of Art The Status of Rand Studies Overview of the Present Study
The Purpose of ArtMetaphysical Value-Judgments Rand's Definition of Art The Cognitive Function of Art The Creative Process Art, Religion, and Philosophy Art and Ethics Romanticism and Naturalism "Efficacy of Consciousness"
Emotional AbstractionPhilosophy and Sense of Life Sense of Life and Character Sense of Life in Love and Art
Emotion and "Expression" in Art"Communication" in Art The Significance of Artistic Selectivity The Response to Art Subject and Meaning in Art Style Style and "Efficacy of Consciousness" Esthetic Judgment
LiteraturePainting and Sculpture The Performing Arts Dance The Role of the Director The Art of Film The Arts and Cognition "Modern Art"
Music and EmotionMusic and Sense of Life Rand's Mistaken Hypothesis The Importance of Melody The Composer's Viewpoint Music as a "Re-Creation of Reality" The Symphony Orchestra Avant-Garde "Music"
Anti-Essentialism in Contemporary PhilosophyThe "Institutional" Definition of Art The "Appeal to Authority" The Rules of Definition Rand's Definition of Art
Human Evolution and Prehistoric ArtThe Fundamentality of Mimesis Anthropological Perspectives The Integrative Nature of Perception The Psychology and Physiology of Emotion Neurological Case Studies The Modular Mind and the Diversity of the Arts Clinical Psychology--Madness and Modernism
Pioneers: Kandinsky, Malevich, and MondrianMind Divorced from Matter: The"Primacy of Consciousness" Collective Aspirations: The "Universal" vs. the "Individual" Absolute Subjectivism "Decoration" vs. Art Utopian Aspirations A Flawed View of Human Perception and Cognition "Intuition" in Place of Reason and Objectivity Counterfeit Elitism and "The Emperor's New Clothes" Freedom, Spontaneity, and "Cognitive Slippage" Theoretical Revisionism Meyer Schapiro Clement Greenberg Abstract Expressionism Mark Rothko Jackson Pollock Barnett Newman Abstract Sculpture Polling the People Art in the Home Killing the Messenger
Rand's ArgumentWhat Photography Is Historical Considerations Contemporary Critical Views Postmodern Photography
Rand's Theoretical PositionBatteux's Classification D'Alembert's Error The Nature of Architecture Utilitarian Function Architecture and Values Architecture and Abstract Sculpture Architecture as Design
Rand's ViewHistorical Influences American Indian Artifacts Quilts and Feminist Art History The Arts and Artifacts of Africa Contemporary Crafts as "Art"
Avant-Garde Trends in MusicAtonality Serialism Minimalism John Cage Avant-Garde Dance: Merce Cunningham Dance: The "Silent Partner of Music" Cunningham's Progeny If It Moves, It Must Be Dance Constrained Movement as Dance "Discussing the Undiscussable" Ice Dancing
James JoyceSamuel Beckett John Ashbery The Art of Film Harrow Alley
The Long Shadow of DuchampPop Art Conceptual Art Assemblage Art and Installation Art Performance Art Video Art Postmodernism and Photography The Future: Art and Technology
Government Subsidy of the ArtsCorporate Support Art and the Law Teaching the Arts to Children Discipline-Based Art Education Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Cautionary Tale The "Core-Knowledge" Program "The Educated Child" A Radical Alternative
A glossary of purported new art forms invented in the twentieth century.
A sampler of the meaningless jargon of the arts establishment, employed in discussions of work that is not, in fact, art.
Headlines and quotations from reviews, reflecting promiscuous use of the term "arts."
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