A Theory of Art

Prologue. The Function and value of art Part I. Aesthetics: the end of artworks 1. Aesthetics I. The nature of art 2. Aesthetics II. The uses of art 3. Aesthetics III. The genealogy of modern European art music Part II. Poetics and hermeneutics: the contents and interpretation of artworks 4. Poetics I. Diegesis and mimesis: the poetic modes and the matter of artistic presentation 5. Poetics II. Narrative and lyric: the poetic forms and the object of artistic presentation 6. Hermenetics. Interpretation and its validity Epilogue. The power of taste Notes