Arguing about art : contemporary philosophical debates / edited by Alex Neill and Aaron Ridley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1 The art of food? -- Food as art -- The meaning of taste and the taste of meaning -- Part 2 The "authentic" performance of music -- Authenticity in musical performance -- The concept of authentic performance -- Part 3 Fakes and forgeries -- What is wrong with a forgery? -- Artistic crimes -- Part 4 Rock music and culture -- The decline of musical culture -- Music's worldly uses, or how I learned to stop worrying and to love Led Zeppelin -- Part 5 Appreciation, understanding, and nature -- Aesthetic appreciation of the natural environment -- On being moved by nature: between religion and natural history -- Models of nature appreciation -- Part 6 Photography and representation -- Photography and representation -- The aesthetics of photographic transparency -- The real challenge for an aesthetics of photography -- Part 7 Feelings and fictions -- Fearing fictionally -- Fiction and the emotions -- Part 8 Enjoying horror -- Why horror? -- The paradox of horror -- Part 9 Sentimentality -- Sentimentality -- The alleged unwholesomeness of sentimentality -- Sentimentality and truthfulness -- Part 10 Pornography and erotica -- Pornographic art -- Erotic art and pornographic pictures -- Part 11 Public art -- Transcript of a hearing to decide the future of Tilted Arc -- What is public art?: time, place, and meaning -- Public art/public space: the spectacle of the Tilted Arc controversy -- Public art controversy: the Serra and Lin cases -- Part 12 Are there societies without art? -- "But they don't have our concept of art" -- Western and non-Western concepts of art.