Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art

1. Introduction
Peer F. Bundgaard

2. Temporal Aspects of Literary Reading
David S. Miall

3. Memory and Mental States in the Appreciation of Literature
Marisa Bortolussi, Peter Dixon

4. Temporal Conflict in the Reading Experience
Cathrine Kietz

5. The Aesthetic Experience with Visual Art “At First Glance”
Paul J. Locher

6. What Is a Surface? In the Real World? And Pictures?
John M. Kennedy, Marta Wnuczko

7. The Idiosyncrasy of Beauty: Aesthetic Universals and the Diversity of Taste
Patrick Colm Hogan

8. Why We Are Not All Novelists
Shaun Gallagher

9. Aesthetic Relationship, Cognition, and the Pleasures of Art
Jean-Marie Schaeffer

10. More Seeing-in: Surface Seeing, Design Seeing, and Meaning Seeing in Pictures
Peer F. Bundgaard

11. Depiction
John Hyman

12. Green War Banners in Central Copenhagen: A Recent Political Struggle Over Interpretation—And Some Implications for Art Interpretation as Such
Frederik Stjernfelt

13. The Appropriation of the Work of Art as a Semiotic Act
Francis Édeline, Jean-Marie Klinkenberg

14. Sculpture, Diagram, and Language in the Artwork of Joseph Beuys
Wolfgang Wildgen

Nyckelord: Philosophy, Phenomenology, Cognitive Psychology, Aesthetics