American Society for Aesthetics President Arthur Danto Philosophy, Columbia University Vice-President Peter Kivy Philosophy, Rutgers University Secretary-Treasurer Roger A. Shiner Philosophy, University of Alberta The Trustees American Ted Cohen Philosophy, University of Chicago Donald W. Crawford Philosophy, Society for University of Wisconsin (Madison) ex officio Mary Devereaux Philosophy, Bucknell University Aesthetics Susan Feagin Philosophy, University of Missouri (Kansas City) john Fisher Philosophy, Temple University jerrold Levinson Philosophy, University of Maryland (College Park) joseph Margolis Philosophy, Temple University julius Moravcsik Philosophy, Stanford University Anita Silvers Philosophy, San Francisco State University 47th judith Tormey Philosophy, Temple University Kendall Walton Philosophy, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) ANNUAL Program Committee Margaret Battin Philosophy, University of Utah MEETING Margaret Brand Philosophy, Ohio State University Allan Casebier Philosophy and Cinema/Television, University of Southern California 25-28 OCTOBER 1989 Richard Eldridge Philosophy, Swarthmore College jerrold Levinson Philosophy, University of ManJland Paul Mattick Philosophy, Adelphi University Stephen Melville English, Syracuse University Stephanie Ross Philosophy, UniversihJ of Missouri (St. Lollis) Gary Shapiro Philosophy, University of Kansas Roger Shiner Philosophy, University of Alberta ex officio Richard Shusterman Philosophy, Temple University Chair Local Arrangements David Ecker SEHNAP, New York University Barbizon Hotel Book Exhibit New York, NY The Scholar's Choice Rochester, NY WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25 I Aesthetic Theory and Social Context Millet Room Registration 7:00-10:00 pm Chair: Thomas Alexander Philosophy, Outside Rousseau Room Southern Illinois University Welcoming Reception 8:00-11:00 pm IIIArtist, Work, Audience': T.B.A. Musing on Barthes and Tolstoi" Trustees' Dinner Meeting 6:00-10:00 pm Speaker: Lucian Krukowski Philosophy, Courbet Room Washingtoll University Commellt: Stanley Bates Philosophy, Middlebury College THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26 IIWittgenstein: Aesthetics and Life" Registration 8:00 am-6:00 pm Speaker: Benjamin Tilghman Philosophy, Outside Rousseau Room Kansas State University Book Display Comment: Judith Genova Philosophy, Outside Rousseau Room Colorado College Concurrent Sessions 9:00-10:45 am II The Institutions of Art: 2 The Gallery System I Passion, Pleasure, and Guilt (Panel Discussion) Rousseau Room Millet Room Moderator: Jo yce Brodsky Art History, Chair: Robert Stecker Philosophy, Central Michigan University University of Connecticut Panelists: Dona Nelson Artist, New York City "Perilous Passions: Richard Martin Fashion In stitute of An Assessment of Plato's Warning about Literature" Technologt) Speaker: Ira Newman Philosophy, Donald Kuspit Art Histon), Mansfield University SUNY (Stony Brook) Comment: Julius Moravcsik Philosophy, Paul Mattick Philosophy, Adelphi Stanford University University "Guilty Aesthetic Pleasures" Break 12:45-2:00 pm Speaker: Sally Markowitz Philosophy, Willamette University Comment: Susan Feagin Philosophy, Concurrent Sessions 2:00-3:45 pm University of Missouri II The Institutions of Art: 1 The Museum Representation in Painting and Photography Millet Room (Panel Discussion) Rousseau Room Chair: Calvin Seerveld Philosophy, Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto Moderator: George Dickie Philosophy University of Illinois (Chicago) "Transforming Images: Photographs of Representations" Panelists: Carol Zemel Art Histon), SUNY (Buffalo) Speaker: Barbara Saved off Philosophy, Donna Di Salvo Independent Curator, New Vanderbilt University York City Comment: Joel Snyder Art and Design, Adam Weinberg Director, University of Chicago Whitney Museum/Equitable "Realistic Visual Representation, Alan Wallach Art History, Naturalism, and Ideology" College of William and Man) Speaker: Greg Horowitz Philosophy, Break 10:45-11:00 am Rutgers University Comment: John Gilmour Philosophy, Concurrent Sessions 10:30 am-12:15 pm Alfred University II Kant, The Sublime, and the Postmodern FRIDAY OCTOBER 27 (Panel Discussion) Rousseau Room Concurrent Sessions 8:45-10:30 am Moderator: Paul Guyer Philosophy, University of Pennsylvania I Aesthetics of Friendship and Character Millet Room "Kant and the Contemporary Sublime" Speaker: Donald Crawford Philosophy, Chair: Mary Devereaux Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison Bucknell University "Sublimity and Origin" "Love, Friendship and the Aesthetics of Character" Speaker: Timothy Gould Philosophy, Speaker: David Novitz Philosophy, Metropolitan State College University of Canterbury "The Unspeakable Greatness of Being" Comment: Paul Bove English, University of Pittsburgh Speaker: Stephen David Ross Philosophy, SUNY (Binghamton) "Aesthetic Relations: Michel Foucault and the Fate of Friendship" Break 3:45-4:00 pm Speaker: DanielO'Hara English, Temple University Concurrent Sessions 4:00-5:45 pm Comment: Arnold Davidson Philosophy, University of Chicago I Music: Expression and Identity Millet Room II Aesthetics of Bodies and Markets Chair: Jo Ellen Jacobs Philosophy, Rousseau Room Millikin University Chair: Karl Toepfer Theatre, "The Expression and Arousal of Emotion by Music" San Jose State University Speakers: Jenefer Robinson Philosophy, "Making Up the Face" UniverSity of Cincinnati Speaker: Judith Goldstein Anthropology, Comment: Kendall Walton Philosphy, Vassar College University of Michigan uMuscles" "The Imaginary Museum of Musical Works" Speaker: Susan Bordo Philosophy, Speaker: Lydia Goehr Philosophy, Le Mayne College Harvard University ilMusee aux Puces" Comment: Stephen Davies Philosphy, Speaker: Jeff Weinstein Contributing Editor of the University of Auckland Village Voice Session II Metaphor and Representation Commentator: William J. Earle Philosophy, Rousseau Room Baruch College, CUNY Chair: Thomas Leddy Philosophy, San Jose State University Break 10:30-10:45 am IIMetaphor and the Politics of Representation" Concurrent Sessions 10:45 am-12:30 pm Speaker: Arthur Danto Philosophy, Columbia University I At the Borders of Institutional Art Millet Room Comments: Marx Wartofsky Philosophy, Baruch College, CUNY Chair: Willis Truitt Philosophy, Mark Johnson Philosophy, University of South Florida Southern Illinois University HIs Primitive Art Art?" Speaker: Gene Blocker Philosophy, Ohio University Comment: Michael Krausz Ph ilosoph y, Bryn Mawr College "Bridging the Gaps: Traditional Aesthetics and Popular Culture" Speaker: Lambert Zuidevaart Philosophy, Calvin College Comment: Nicholas Wolterstorff Philosophy, Yale University II Modernism/Postmodernism: Aesthetics/Politics Rousseau Room Chair: Martin Donougho Philosophy, University of South Carolina "Simulacra of Resistance: The Political Pathos of Postmodernism" Speaker: Charles Altieri English, University of Washington Comment: Nancy Fraser Philosophy, Northwestern University "The Ethics of Modernism" Speaker: Anthony Cascardi Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley Comment: John Caputo Philosophy, Villanova University Trustees' Luncheon Meeting 12:00-1:30 pm Courbet Room Break 12:30-2:00 pm Afternoon at New York University University Theatre, 35 West 4th Street Plenary Session PART I 2:00-4:30 pm Postmodern Philosophy and Aesthetics: A Symposium on Richard Rorty's Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity Chair: Anita Silvers Philosophy, San Francisco State University "Contingence, Autonomy, and Decency" Speaker: Agnes Heller Philosophy, New School of Social Research "Nature Displaced by History" Speaker: Joseph Margolis Philosophy, Temple University Reply: Richard Rorty Humanities, University of Virginia Break 4:30-4:45 . PART [J 4:45-5:45 Concurrent Sessions 11:00 am-12:45 pm David and Marian Mandel Lecture "Memes and the Exploitation of Imagination" I Gender and Pornography Speaker: Daniel Dennett Philosophy, Millet Room Tufts University Chair: William Bywater Philosophy, Allegheny College Reception 6:00-7:15 pm IIBeautiful Women, Dutiful Men" T.B.A. Speaker: Mary Wiseman Philosophy, Graduate Center, CUNY Comment: Kathleen Wright Philosophy, Haverford College SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28 "Pornography and the Meaning of a Photograph" Speaker: Flo Leibowitz Philosophy, Concurrent Sessions 9:00-10:45 am Oregon State University Comment: Carolyn Korsmeyer Philosophy, SUNY (Buffalo) I Jokes and Fictions Millet Room Chair: Sarah Fowler Philosophy, " Art with Commercials: TV and Advertising Ma rshall University Rousseau Room "Jokes" Chair: Robert Ginsburg Philosophy, Speaker: Noel Carroll Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University !Delaware Cornell University Campus) Comment: John Morreall Philosophy, "Serious Watching" Rochester Institute of Technology Speaker: Alexander Nehamas Philosophy, "Fictional Objects in Literature" University of Pennsylvania Speaker: Jay Bachrach Philosophy, "The Beauty of Advertising" Central Washington University Speaker: Mark Crispin Miller The Writing Seminar, Comment: Peter McCormick Philosophy, Johns Hopkins University University of Ottawa Session Commentator:Ted Cohen Philosophy, University of Chicago " Writing and Painting Rousseau Room Break 12:15-1:30 pm Chair: Renee Cox Music, University of Tennesee (Chatanooga) "On Writing Painting as an Arf' Business Meeting 1:30-2: 30 pm Rousseau Room Speaker: Richard Wollheim Philosophy, University of California (Berkeley) Comments: David Rosand Art History, Visit to the School of Visual Arts Columbia University 209 East 23rd Street Daniel Herwitz Philsophy, Tour 3:00-5:00 pm California State University (Los Angeles) Reception 5:15-6:15 pm Break 10:45-11:00 am -.