Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-215) and index.

Aristotle, Titian and tragic painting / Thomas Puttfarken -- Wax, brick and bread : apotheosis of matter and meaning in seventeenth-century philosophy and painting / Jay Bernstein -- Kant and aesthetic imagination / Michael Podro -- Meaning, identity, embodiment : the uses of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology in art history / Amelia Jones -- Art works, utterances and things / Alex Potts -- Art and the ethical : modernism and the problem of minimalism / Jonathan Vickery -- Does are think? How can we think the feminine, aesthectically? / Griselda Pollock -- What was postminimalism? / Stephen Melville -- Museum as work in the age of technological display : reading Heidegger through Tate Modern / Diarmuid Costello -- Eyes wide shut : some considerations thought and art / Adrian Rifkin.