Chapter 2: What Is an Aesthetic Property?

2.1 The Fighting Temeraire, J.M.W. Turner, 1839, oil on canvas.


2.2 Saturn Devouring His Son, Francisco Goya, 1819–23, mixed media mural transferred to canvas.


2.3 The Great Wave off Kanagawa, Katsushika Hokusai, 1831, woodblock print.


2.4 Red Canna, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1923, oil on canvas.


2.5 Happy Holiday, Agnes Martin, 1999, acrylic paint and graphite on canvas.


2.6 Whistler’s Mother, James M. Whistler, 1871, oil on canvas.


2.7 Happy, Pharrell Williams, 2013, performance.


2.8 Trouble, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, 1970, performance.


2.9 Pumped Up Kicks, Foster The People, 2011, performance.


2.10 Strange Fruit, Billie Holiday, 1939, performance.


2.11 “Happy We Are from Tehran,” Ah T, 2014, performance.


2.12 The Arsenal, Diego Rivera, 1928, fresco.


2.13 Ikebana in Kyoto State Guest House, RSSFSO, 2019, photograph. “Ikebana in Kyoto State Guest House” by 内閣府 is licensed under CC BY 4.0.


2.14 Pietà, Michelangelo, 1499, Carrara marble. “Michelangelo’s Pietà” by Stanislav Traykov is licensed under CC BY 2.5.


2.15 St. George and the Dragon, Peter Paul Rubens, 1606–1610, oil on canvas.


2.16 Happy Holiday, Agnes Martin, 1999, acrylic paint and graphite on canvas.


2.17 The Japanese Bridge (The Water-Lily Pond), Claude Monet, 1897–99, oil on canvas.


2.18 Yellow–Red–Blue, Wassily Kandinsky, 1925, oil on canvas.


2.19 Fallingwater, Frank Lloyd Wright, 1935, architecture.


2.20 Tilted Arc, Richard Serra, 1981, steel sculpture.