Marvelous Images

Kendall Walton turned to philosophy as an undergraduate at Berkeley, after considering a career in music. He received his PhD from Cornell University in 1967, and has taught at the University of Michigan since then. His extensive writings on aesthetics include the groundbreaking, Mimesis as Make-Believe (1990). He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a past president of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Introduction
Part I: Aesthetic and Moral Values
1: "How Marvelous": Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value
Postscripts to "How Marvelous!"
2: The Test of Time
3: Morals in Fiction and Fictional Morality
4: On the (So-Called) Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance
Part II: Pictures and Photographs
5: Pictures & Hobby Horses: Make-Believe Beyond Childhood
6: Transparent Pictures: On the Nature of Photographic Realism
Postscripts to "Transparent Pictures"
7: On Pictures & Photographs: Objections Answered
8: Seeing In and Seeing Fictionally
9: Depiction, Perception, & Imagination: Responses to Richard Wollheim
10: Experiencing Still Photographs: What Do You See and How Long Do You See It?
Part III: Categories and Styles
11: Categories of Art
12: Style and the Products and Processes of Art