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Prnidlmt Joseph Margolis, Philosophy, Temple University Vice President Arthur Danca, Philosophy, Columbia University $ccrctary-lt'casurcr Arnold BerJeant, Philosophy, long Island University, C.W. Post Campus.,

Greenvale. NY 11548. (516) 299-2341 Trustees Philip Alperson. Philosophy, University of Louisville Margaret P. Battin, Philosophy, University of Utah Noel Carroll, Philosophy, Wesleyan University Ted Cohen, Philosophy, University of Chicago John Fisher, Philosophy, Temple University. ex officio Catherine Lord, Philosophy, Syracuse University Stephanie Ross, Philosophy, University of Missouri-St. Louis Alexander Sesonske. Film Studies and Philosophy, University of California,

Santa Barbara Anita Silvers, Philosophy, San Francisco State University Judith Tormey, Philosophy, Temple University Program Committee Philip Alperson, University of Louisville Arnold Berleant, C.\V. Post Center of Long Island University, ex offICio Flo Liebowitz, Oregon State University Julius Moravcsik, Stanford University Gary Shapiro, University of Kansas Dabney Townsend, University of Texas, Arlington Petra Von Morstein, University of Calgary Program Chair Allen Carlson, Philosophy, University of Alberta

Edmonton. Alb T6G 2E5. (403) 432-3307 local Arrangements Susan Feagin, Philosophy, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Kansas City. MO 64110. (816) 276-2817 Book Exhibit Exhibit Promotions Plus, Columbia, MD

The 45th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics has been supported by the College of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Philosophy of the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

Design by University Communications

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Annual Meeting

October ~8-31 , 1987

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WED\ ESDAY. OCTOBEH 28 REGISTRATION, 5:00-10:00 pm, Brookside Room,

Hilton Plaza Inn

TRUSTEES' DINNER MEETING, 6:00-10:00 pm, Hilton Plaza Inn

OPENING RECEPTION, 6:00-11:00 pm, Brookside Room, Hilton Plaza Inn

Screening of Video Art by Vito Acconci 7:00-11:00 pm, running continuously, Board Room. Hilton Plaza Inn (see: Thursday session, 5:00-6:00 pm)

THl RSDAY. OC'TOBER 29 REGISTRATION, 8:00 am-6:00 pm, University Center

BOOK DISPLAY, 8:00 am-6:00 pm, University Center, Alumni Room

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 9:00-10:30 am, University Center A. Postmodernism and Postmodern Philosophy

Westport Room Moderator: Roger Seamon, English, University of British Columbia

David H. Fisher, Philosophy, Santa Clara University "Dwelling in Difference: Postmodemism as the Space Between"

Commentator: Bill Martin, Philosophy, University of Kansas

Timothy Gould, Philosophy. Metropolitan State College "Prom Postmodern Philosophy Towards the Aesthetics of Postmodernism"

Commentator: Stephen Melville. English. Syracuse University

B. The Aesthetics of Music/Plaza Room Moderator: Rohet B. Cantrick, Music, State University College at Buffalo Jo Ellen Jacobs, Philosophy, Millikin University

"Identifying Musical Works of Art"

Commentator: Lee B. Brown. Philosophy, Ohio State University

Renee Cox, Music, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

"Varieties of Music Expressionism"

Commentator: Albert W. Hayward. Philosophy, California State University·LOItg Beach

BREAK. 10:30·10:45 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:45 am-12:15 pm, University Center

A. Postmodernism in Art and Criticism Westport Room

Moderator: RalfWeber, Architecture, University of California-Berkeley John C. Gilmour, Philosophy, Alfred University

"Postmodern Painting and Original Representation' ,

Commentator: Martin Donougho, Philosophy. University of South Carolina William Bywater, Philosophy. Allegheny College

"The Paranoia of Postmodernism" Commentator: Mary Wiseman, Philosophy, City University of New York

B. Hanslick 's On the Musically Beautiful/Plaza Room Moderator: Jerrold Levinson, Philosophy, University of Maryland

Geoffrey Payzant, Philosophy, University of Toronto "Hanslick's Unwritten Aesthetics of Music"

Commentator: Gordon Epperson, Music, University of Arizona

Commentator: Peter Kivy, Philosophy, Rutgers­New Brunswick

BREAK, 12:15-1:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 1:30·3:00 pm, University Center A . The Nature of Fiction/Westport Room

Moderator: Kendall L. Walton. Philosophy, University of Michigan

Larry Shiner, Philosophy, Sangamon State University "Fictional and Nonfictional Discourse: The Case of the Historical Novel"

Commentator: Kevin W. Sweeney, Philosophy, University of'Thmpa

Hugh Wilder, Philosophy, University of Charleston "Intentions and the Very Idea of Fiction"

Commentator: Anita Silvers, Philosophy, San Francisco State University

B. Psychoanalysis and Interpretation/Plaza Room Moderator: Jay E. Bachrach, Philosophy, Central Washington State

Ellen Handler Spitz, Aesthetics. New York University "Meditations on Art without History: The Paintings of a Schizophrenic Child"

Commentator: Mary Devereaux, Philosophy, Bucknell University

Brooke Hopkins, English, University of Utah "The Poetics of Freud's 'Uncanny': Wordsworth's 'Spot of TIme' Passages and Keats' 'This Living Hand' "

Commentator: Cynthia C. Rostankowski. Philosophy, Santa Clara University

BREAK, 3:00-3:15 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 3:15-4:45 pm, University Center A . Feminist Theory and Aesthetics/Westport Room

Moderator: Stephanie Ross, Philosophy, University of Missouri-St. Louis

Estella Lauter, Humanistic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

"The Emerging Feminist Theory of Art"

Hilde Hein, Philosophy, Holy Cross College " 'Feminism' 'Feminist' in the Language of Aesthetics' ,

Carolyn Korsmeyer, Philosophy, State University of New York at Buffalo

"Dehorning Dilemmas: The usb of Feminist Theory"

B. Applause and Accountability/Plaza Room

Moderator: James Jobes, Philosophy, Rhodes College Robert Ginsberg, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University-Delaware County

"The Aesthetics of Applause"

Commentator: Douglas Arrell, Theatre and Drama, University of Winnipeg

Carl R. Hausman, Philosophy. Pennsylvania State University

"Responsibility and Artistic Accountability"

Commentator: Stan Godlovitch. Philosophy, Mount Royal College

BREAK, 4:45-5:00 pm

PLENARY SESSION, 5:00-6:00 pm, University Center, Westport Room

Vito Acconci and Video Art

Moderator: Craig Subler, Director, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art

Vito Acconci, Artist, New York City "Vito Acconci Discusses His Video Beginnings"

RECEPTION, 6:00-7:00 pm, Fine Arts Building, University of Missouri~Kansas City Gallery of Art

FHIDA\. OGfOBER ;~O REGISTRATION, 8:00 am-l:30 pm, University Center

BOOK DISPLAY, 8:00 am-6:00 pm, University Center, Alumni Room

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 9:00-10:20 am, University Center A . Danto's Aesthetics/Westport Room

Moderator: Judith Tormey, Philosophy, Temple University

George Bailey, Philosophy, East Carolina University "Danto and Forging Metaphors"

Noel Carroll, Philosophy, Wesleyan University "Dan to, History and Art"

Session Commentator: Arthur Danto, Philosophy, Columbia University

B. Metaphor/Plaza Room Moderator: Gary Iseminger, Philosophy,

Carleton College

Mark Johnson, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale

"Nonpropositional Dimensions of Metaphorical C reativity"

Richard Moran, Philosophy, Cornell University "Seeing and Believing: Metaphor, Image and Force"

Session Commentator: Ted Cohen, Philosophy, University of Chicago

BREAK, 10:20-10:30 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:30 am-12:15 pm, University Center A . Expression/Westport Room

Moderator: Jenefer Robinson, Philosophy, University of Cincinnati

Douglas Dempster, Music, University of Rochester "Goodman on Expressiveness, Exemplification, and Samples"

Robert Rosthal, Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

"Imagined Counterparts"

Alex Neill, Philosophy, Cambridge University "Emotion, Learning and Literature"

Session Commentator: Colin Lyas, Philosophy, University of Lancaster

B. Perception and Taste in Eighteenth Century Aesthetics/Plaza Room

Moderator: Roger Shiner, Philosophy, University of Alberta Mark Strasser, Philosophy, University of Texas~Arlington

"Kivyon Hutcheson on Aesthetic Perception"

Calvin Seervald, Aesthetics, Institute for Christian Studies

"Both More and Less Than a Matter of Taste"

Richard Shusterman, Philosophy, Temple University "Of the Scandal of Taste: Social Privilege as Nature in Hume and Kant"

Session Commentator: Donald C rawford, Philosophy, University of Wisconsin

BREAK, 12:15-1:30 pm

TRUSTEES' LUNCHEON MEETING, 12:15-1:30 pm

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 1:30-3:15 pm A . Dilthey's Poetry and Experience

Brookside Room, Hilton Plaza Inn

Moderator: Rudolf A. Makkreel, Philosophy, Emory University

Jacob Owensby, Philosophy, North Carolina Wesleyan College

"Dilthey's Changing Views of Poetic Expression"

Ra.1ph Freedman, Comparative Literature, Princeton University

"Dilthey and Freud: Two Roles of the Aesthetic Imagination as a Form of Hermeneutics"

B. The Restoration of Works of Art/The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium

Moderator: Forrest Bailey, Chief Conservator, The Nelson~Atkins Museum of Art

Yuriko Saito, Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design

"In Defense of the Integral Restoration of Art" Robert Wicks, Philosophy, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum

"Towards a New Conception of Artistic Restoration' ,

Richard McCarty, Philosophy, East Carolina University "Aesthetic and Historic Values in Art Restoration"

Session Commentator: Mark Sagoff. Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland

BREAK, 3:15-3:30 pm

PLENARY SESSION, 3:30-5:15 pm

Aesthetic Dialogue: Responses to Chinese Art The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium

Moderator: Barbara Sandrisser, Partner. The Paul Partnership Richard Vinograd, Art History, University of Southern California

• 'Artistic Situations and Aesthetic Responses in Traditional China"

John Hay, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University • 'The Place of Beauty in 1faditional China"

Discussion Panel: John Fisher, Philosophy, Temple University Andrew Pekarik, Director, The Asia Society Galleries James C.Y. Watt, Senior Consultant, Chinese

Antiquities and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

BREAK, 5:15-5:30 pm

PLENARY SESSION, 5:30-6:30 pm

The David and Marianne Mandel Lecture The Nelson·Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium

Chairman: Joseph Margolis, Philosophy, Temple University

Alexander Alland, Jr_, Anthropology, Columbia University

"Affect and Aesthetics in Human Evolution"

RECEl'I'ION, 6:30-7:30 pm, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

~.\Tl RIJ\\_ OC TUBER ;~ 1 REGISTRATION, 8:00 am-2:00 pm, University Center

BOOK DISPLAY, 8:00 am-2:00 pm, University Center, Alumni Room

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 9:00-12:00 am, University Center

A _ Art Deco: Elegance, Opulence, Decadence Westport Room

Moderator: William T. Weber, Vice-President, Rambusch Co.

Richard Striner, Chief Historian, U.S. Capitol Historical Society, Washington, D.C.

"Art Deco and Architectural Polemics"

Louis Pappas, Artist. New York City "The Deco Decade in Film"

Session Commentator: Joan Dillon, Historic Preservationist, Kansas City

B. The Humorous, the Bizarre, the Grotesque, and the Ugly IPla"" Room

Moderator: Eugene E. Selk, Philosophy, Creighton University

John Morreall. Liberal Arts. Rochester Institute of Technology

"Incongruity in Art and Life"

Gary Hagberg, Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg

"The Systematic Elusiveness of the Ugly" Session Commentator: Bela Szabados, Philosophy, University of Regina

BREAK, 10:20-10:30 am

CONCURRENT SESSIONS, 10:30-11:30 am

A , The Aesthetics of Dance IWestport Room Moderator: Curtis L. Carter, Philosophy, Marquette University

Sarah B. Fowler, Philosophy, Marshall University "Basic Actions, Agent Intentions and the Doing of a Dance"

Commentator: Francis Sparshott, Philosophy, University of Toronto

B. Imitation IPlaza Room

Moderator: Margaret P, Battin, Philosophy, University of U tah

Ira Newman, Philosophy, Mansfield University "Imitating an Artwork: The Inverted Mimeticism of Oscar Wilde"

Commentator: Lucian Krukowski, Philosophy, Washington University

BREAK, 11:30-11:45 am

11:45 am-12:45 pm, Westport Room

BREAK, 12:45-2:30 pm

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TRUSTEES' LUNCHEON MEETING, 12:45-2:30 pm

SATURDAY AFTERNOON roUR:

Kansas City's Deco Architecture 12:30-5:00 pm Tour Director: Richard Farnan, Howard·Needles·Tammen & Bergendoff Architects (leaving from Hilton Plaza Inn)

SATURDAY NIGHT CONCERT Ol'I'ION, 8:00 pm (discounted tickets available in advance)

Kansas City Friends of Qlamber Music Double Quartet Concert

Cleveland String Quartet Meliora String Quartet

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