ASA Announces Top 20 Article Downloads for 2019 from JStor from JAAC

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the top twenty article downloads from the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from JStor in 2019.

1 The Nature of Horror, Noël Carroll, Vol. 46, No. 1 (Autumn, 1987), pp. 51-59

2 Profound Offense and Cultural Appropriation, James O. Young, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 135-146

3 Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces, Nicholas Alden Riggle, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 243-257

 4 Horror and Humor, Noël Carroll, Vol. 57, No. 2, Aesthetics and Popular Culture (Spring, 1999), pp. 145-160

5 The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm, Noël Carroll, Vol. 48, No. 4, Feminism and Traditional Aesthetics (Autumn, 1990), pp. 349-360

6 The Role of Theory in Aesthetics, Morris Weitz, Vol. 15, No. 1 (Sep., 1956), pp. 27-35

 7 What Is Wrong with a Forgery? Alfred Lessing, Vol. 23, No. 4 (Summer, 1965), pp. 461-471

 8 Hume's Standard of Taste,Noël Carroll, Vol. 43, No. 2 (Winter, 1984), pp. 181-194

9 The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion, Katerina Bantinaki, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Fall 2012), pp. 383-392

 10 "Primitive Fakes," "Tourist Art," and the Ideology of Authenticity, Larry Shiner, Vol. 52, No. 2 (Spring, 1994)

11 What a Documentary Is, After All, Carl Plantinga, Vol. 63, No. 2 (Spring, 2005), pp. 105-117

12 The Aesthetic Idea of Impressionism, Lionello Venturi, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring, 1941), pp. 34-45

13 Beauty Matters, Peg Zeglin Brand, Vol. 57, No. 1 (Winter, 1999), pp. 1-10

14 Satire, Analogy, and Moral Philosophy, Nicholas Diehl, Vol. 71, No. 4 (Fall 2013), pp. 311-321

15 Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist, Dan Flory, Vol. 64, No. 1 (Winter 2006), pp.67-79

16 Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem, Jerrold Levinson, Vol. 60, No. 3 (Summer 2002), pp. 227-238

17 Aristotle on Comedy, Leon Golden, Vol. 42, No. 3 (Spring, 1984), pp. 283-290

 18 Panofsky, Iconography, and Semiotics, Christine Hasenmueller, Vol. 36, No. 3, Critical Interpretation (Spring, 1978), pp. 289-301

19 Art and Audience, Nick Zangwill, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Summer, 1999), pp. 315-332

20 What Is Literary Realism, Mary Francis Slattery, Vol. 31, No. 1 (Autumn, 1972), pp. 55-62

For comparison, the list from 2018: https://aesthetics-online.org/news/news.asp?id=469373