Classics in Western Philosophy of ArtIn this synthetic introduction to the history of the philosophy of art, Noel Carroll elucidates and analyses selected writings on art by Plato, Aristotle, Hutcheson, Hume, Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Tolstoy, and Bell. Carroll's narrative tracks developments between major positions in the philosophy of art, ranging from the idea that art is unavoidably embedded in society to the evolution of the notion that art is autonomous ("art for art's sake"),