ABSTRACT
Philosophers are no more artists than artists are philosophers. Philosophers are theorists. Where philosophers of art are concerned with the nature and value of a cultural phenomenon – “art”, or “the arts”, or one or more of the several art forms – aestheticians might cast their net further afield, in order to understand what is entailed by the peculiar mode of aesthetic appreciation that attends as readily to the sublime, the beautiful, or the picturesque in the natural world as it does to objects created by human agents in pursuit of some cultural phenomenon. A portfolio from which the philosophers were able to select works to write about was assembled by Henry Little and Josephine Breese, the directors of Breese Little. The directors of the gallery have taken an active interest in this publication from its inception. Some works spoke to the contributors through a dialogue with earlier works of art.
