Top 25 JAAC downloads in 2020 from JStor

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the top 25 downloads of articles from the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from JStor in 2020. (Please note that there is a delay in JStor publication. The most recent articles available for this list are from 2016).

1. The Nature of Horror, Noël Carroll, 46.1 (1987)
2. Profound Offense and Cultural Appropriation, James O. Young, 63.2 (2005)
3. The Role of Theory in Aesthetics, Morris Weitz, 15.1 (1956)
4. Horror and Humor, Noël Carroll 57.2, (1999)
   
5. Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces, Nicholas Alden Riggle, 68.3 (2010)
6. Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions, Jon Robson, Aaron Meskin, 74.2 (2016)
7. The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm, Noël Carroll, 48.4 (1990)
8. What a Documentary Is, After All, Carl Plantinga, 63.2 (2005)
9. Hume's Standard of Taste, Noel Carroll, 43.2 (1984)
10. The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion, Katerina Bantinaki, 70.4 (2012)
11. What Is Literary Realism? Mary Francis Slattery, 31.1 (1972)
12. Panofsky, Iconography, and Semiotics, Christine Hasenmueller, 36.3 (1978)
13. The Aesthetic Idea of Impressionism, Lionello Venturi, 1.1 (1941)
14. Political Music and the Politics of Music, Lydia Goehr, 52.1 (1994)
15. Satire, Analogy, and Moral Philosophy, Nicholas Diehl, 71.4 (2013)
16. Aristotle on Comedy, Leon Golden, 42.3 (1984)
17. Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem, Jerrold Levinson, 60.3 (2002)
18. Race, Ethnicity, Expressive Authenticity: Can White People Sing the Blues? Joel Rudinow, 52.1 (1994)
19. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the Morality of Memory, Christopher Grau, 64.1 (2006)
20. What Is Wrong with a Forgery? Alfred Lessing, 23.4 (1965)
21. Defining Comics? Aaron Meskin, 65.4 (2007)
22. Art and Audience, Nick Zangwill, 57.3 (1999)
23. "The Effects of Blackness": Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant, Meg Armstrong, 54.3 (1996)
24. Beauty Matters, Peg Zeglin Brand, 57.1 (1999)
25. The Readymades of Marcel Duchamp: The Ambiguities of an Aesthetic Revolution, Steven Goldsmith, 42.2 (1983)