| A | B |
| Plato "Ion" | Divine intervention |
| Wordsworth | man must produce beautiful art to all |
| Nietzsche | tension and duality fuel art: Apollo/Dionysus |
| Freud | the creative writer is a child in play |
| Eliot | Self sacrifice, extinction of self: past to make future |
| Gadamer | Play experiences |
| Battersby | no female artists |
| Plato "Republic" | art is only pleasure |
| Mo Tzu | music is trivial/ a distraction |
| Hsun Tzu | music balances man |
| Aristotle | mature understanding and sensitivity is needed in art |
| Shih-t'ao | art unifies all |
| Plotinus | beauty is recognized by all |
| Tolstoy | art is highest good, clear to all man |
| Dewey | experience is whole of art |
| Schiller | separate reality/ freeing of man |
| Beardsley | vital aspect of ed. benefits society |
| Adorno | music is a commodity |
| Heidegger | art must be stripped bare/ no extra attachments |
| Hume | taste is relative/universal verbal agreenments |
| Nochlin | social institutions prohibit progress for woman in art |
| Woolf | an artist must have independence/must come from whole being |
| Kant | judge for delight/agreeableness/ goodness/beauty/sublimity |
| Bullough | viewers must distance from art/balance apart |
| Sibley | taste/perception/ how critic works |
| Isenberg | critics alter personal experience/ improvement not possible |
| Cavell | no honest approach |
| Wimsatt/Beardsley | intentions irrelevant/ interpretation |
| Barthes | reader is important |
| Collingwood | art is an individual imaginary experience/ expressing emotions |
| Greenberg | limitations/past will influence future/value art for wrong reasons |
| Sontag | form matters |
| Bell | significant form is important |
| Danto | must be underlying artistic theory |
| Weitz | art cannot be defined |
| Dickie | art is result of position in artworld |
| Coomaraswamy | art is process/rasa |
| Clendinnen | replications of nature |
| Goswamy | good art should have rasa/spirit in all art |
| Keene | conscious of aesthetic in life |
| Schopenhaur | music is copy of the will/ideas |
| Langer | dance:virtual power |
| Beardsley | motions are the art/all is dance |
| Carrol/Banes | specific motions make art |
| Berleant | cannot be separated by sensory/cultural |
| Carrol | being moved by nature |
| Levinson | sounds within an experience |
| Scruton | architecture: function/art + craft |
| Goldblatt | take away old - new - betweeness |
| Le Corbusier | mass and surface is architecture |
| Phillips | public space and individual art making |
| Goldblatt | puppeteering lets artists interpret the world |
| Rudinow | separate art views among white + black |
| Shusterman | pop art too aesthetic |
| Eco | tv is pleasurable but not artistic |
| Nehamas | pop art same as Plato's poetry |
| Boudrillard | reality/dream mixed |
| Walton | photos transparent, see world through them |
| Benjamin | challenge uniqueness + liquidates tradition |
| Cohen | art in photos are the subjects |
| Devereaux | beauty + evil can mix in art |