Contents: Foreword
The literary work of art
Aesthetic descriptions and secondary senses
Danto and the ontology of literature
Understanding people and understanding art
Picture space and moral space
Reflections on aesthetic theory
Literature, philosophy and nonsense
Charles Le Brun, theory, philosophy and irony
Architecture, expression and the understanding of a culture
Perspective, painting and the look of the world
A conceptual dimension of art history
Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams
Literature, human understanding and morality
Reflections on aesthetic judgment
Index of names
Index of subjects.
