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  1. Aesthetic Experience as the Transformation of Pleasure.Damien Freeman - 2010 - The Harvard Review of Philosophy 17 (1):56-75.
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  2. Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings.Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers (eds.) - 2014 - New York: Acumen Publishing.
    In 1797 Friedrich Schlegel wrote philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy, or the art. This collection of essays contains both the philosophy and the art. It brings together an international team of leading philosophers to address diverse philosophical issues raised by recent works of art. Each essay engages with a specific artwork and explores the connection between the image and the philosophical content and how philosophy can aid interpretation of the artwork. The discussion ranges (...)
     
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    Art's Emotions: Ethics, Expression and Aesthetic Experience.Damien Freeman - 2011 - Routledge.
    Despite the very obvious differences between looking at Manet’s _Woman with a Parrot_ and listening to Elgar’s Cello Concerto, both experiences provoke similar questions in the thoughtful aesthete: why does the painting seem to express reverie and the music, nostalgia? How do we experience the reverie and nostalgia in such works of art? Why do we find these experiences rewarding in similar ways? As our awareness of emotion in art, and our engagement with art’s emotions, can make such a special (...)
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    Imaginatively Experiencing Paintings and Persons.Damien Freeman - 2013 - Journal of Aesthetic Education 47 (1):36-45.
    That red boxer shorts and socks do just as well as fig leaves for concealing modesty in Tom de Freston's recent paintings demonstrates that modesty can also be a source of comedy. Monumental figures and poses that might otherwise inspire awe instead elicit a grimace. Perhaps this humor is not strictly an aesthetic virtue of de Freston's work. Even so, there are many genuinely aesthetically relevant features that we might attend to: representational properties, expressive properties, formal properties, and art-historical properties. (...)
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  5. Introduction: figurative art and figurative philosophy.Damien Freeman - 2014 - In Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers, Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings. New York: Acumen Publishing.
     
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    Narrative, Emotion, and Insight. Edited by Noël Carroll and John Gibson. (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. Pp. ix +188. Price US$64.95.).Damien Freeman - 2013 - Philosophical Quarterly 63 (251):405-407.
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  7. The Lens of Emotion: Wollheim's Two Conceptions of Emotional Colouring.Damien Freeman - 2010 - Literature & Aesthetics 20 (2):74-91.
     
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