Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Editor’s Introduction, Fourth Edition xiii
4. I Reality, Experience, and Theater
5. Section Introduction 1
6. Republic III (Steph. 386–402; c. 375 BCE) 3
7. Poetics 1–9 (Steph. 1447–1452; c. 350 BCE) 19
8. “Psychical Distance” as a Factor in Art and as an Aesthetic Principle (1912) 29
9. Modern Theater Is Epic Theater (1930) 39
10. Art as Experience (1934) 47
11. The Artworld (1964) 59
12. Augmented Reality and Theatre (2024) 71
13. II Music, Emotion, and Dance
14. Section Introduction 85
15. The Birth of Tragedy (1872) 87
16. What Is Art? (1898) 95
17. Night Music (1929) 101
18. Feeling and Form (1953) 107
19. Experimental Music (1958) 117
20. Four Criteria of Electronic Music (1971) 123
21. The Politics of the Body: Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater (1990) 133
22. III Taste, Imagination, and Literature
23. Section Introduction 143
24. Of the Standard of Taste (1757) 145
25. Critique of Judgement (1790) 155
26. The Writer and Fantasizing (1908) 171
27. A Room of One’s Own (1929) 179
28. Psychology and Literature (1930) 191
29. Narrative Emotions: Beckett’s Genealogy of Love (1988) 203
30. IV History, Interpretation, and Painting
31. Section Introduction 217
32. Philosophy of Fine Art (1818–1829) 219
33. On the Spiritual in Art (1912) 229
34. Suprematism (1927) 241
35. Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art (1936) 249
36. Cézanne’s Doubt (1945) 261
37. Seven Seals of Affirmation (1973) 273
38. Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism? (1983) 279
39. V Politics, Power, and Film
40. Section Introduction 289
41. The Method of Making a Workers’ Film (1925) 291
42. Cult of Distraction: On Berlin Picture-Houses (1926) 295
43. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility (1936) 301
44. The Aesthetic Dimension (1977) 317
45. Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will (1998) 323
46. The Pensive Image (2008) 337
47. VI Gender, Difference, and Photography
48. Section Introduction 349
49. Brief Historical Sketch of the Invention of the Art (1844) 351
50. The Future of Photographic Technique (1927) 359
51. Any Theory of the “Subject” Has Always Been Appropriated by the “Masculine” (1974) 363
52. In Plato’s Cave (1977) 373
53. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980) 385
54. Torture and the Ethics of Photography (2007) 391
55. The Coming of Age: Cindy Sherman, Feminism, and Art History (2014) 405
56. VII Culture, Collecting, and Architecture
57. Section Introduction 415
58. The Lamp of Memory (1849) 419
59. Towards a New Architecture (1923) 427
60. Learning from Las Vegas (1972) 437
61. The Invention of Africa (1988) 445
62. On Collecting Art and Culture (1988) 453
63. Letter to Peter Eisenman (1990) 465
64. Rethinking Historiography and Ethnography: Surrealism’s Intellectual Legacy (2017) 473
65. Embodied and Existential Wisdom in Architecture: The Thinking Hand (2017) 487
66. Credits 499