The literary work of art -- Aesthetic descriptions and secondary senses -- Danto and the ontology of literature -- Understanding people and understanding art -- Picture space and moral space -- Reflections on aesthetic theory -- Literature, philosophy and nonsense -- Charles le Brun, theory, philosophy and irony -- Architecture, expression and the understanding of a culture -- Perspective, painting and the look of the world -- A conceptual dimension of art history -- Language and painting, border wars and pipe dreams -- Literature, human understanding and morality -- Reflections on aesthetic judgment
