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  so far in 2021. (Please note that there is a delay in JStor publication. The most recent articles available for this list are from 2017).

For the curious, we have included information on each article's placement in 2020. We will update the list once the complete data are available for 2021.

1. The Nature of Horror, Noël Carroll, 46.1 (1987) #1 in 2020
   
2. Profound Offense and Cultural Appropriation, James O. Young, 63.2 (2005) #2 in 2020
3. The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm, Noël Carroll, 48.4 (1990) #7 in 2020
   
4. Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces, Nicholas Alden Riggle, 68.3 (2010) #5 in 2020
5. The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion, Katerina Bantinaki, 70.4 (2012) #10 in 2020
6. The Aesthetic Idea of Impressionism, Lionello Venturi, 1.1 (1941) #13 in 2020
7. What a Documentary Is, After All, Carl Plantinga, 63.2 (2005) #8 in 2020
8. The Readymades of Marcel Duchamp: The Ambiguities of an Aesthetic Revolution, Steven Goldsmith, 42.2 (1983) #25 in 2020
   
9. The Role of Theory in Aesthetics, Morris Weitz, 15.1 (1956) #3 in 2020
   
10. Race, Ethnicity, Expressive Authenticity: Can White People Sing the Blues? Joel Rudinow, 52.1 (1994) #18 in 2020
    
11. What is Public Art? Time, Place, Meaning, Hilde Hein, 54.1 (1996) #37 in 2020
12. Reading Mosques: Meaning and Architecture in Islam, Jale Nejdet Erzen, 69.1 (2011) #43 in 2020
13. The Japanese Aesthetics of Imperfection and Insufficiency, Yuriko Saito 55.4 (1997) #56 om 2020
14. Horror and Humor, Noël Carroll 57.2, (1999) #4 in 2020
    
15. Political Music and the Politics of Music, Lydia Goehr, 52.1 (1994) #14 in 2020
    
16.  Improvisation in Dance, Curtis L. Carter, 58.2 (2000) new on list 
17. Panofsky, Iconography, and Semiotics, Christine Hasenmueller, 36.3 (1978) #12 in 2020
18. Satire, Analogy, and Moral Philosophy, Nicholas Diehl, 71.4 (2013) #15 in 2020
    
19. The Appeal of the Mystery, Alan H. Goldman, 69.3 (2011) #61 in 2020
20. Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist, Dan Flory 64.1 (2006) #39 in 2020
21. Oppressive Texts,Resisting Readers and the Gendered Spectator, Mary Devereaux 48.4 (1990) #30 in 2020
22. The Rococo as a Dream of Happiness, Remy G. Saisselin, 19.2 (1960) #98 in 2020
    
23. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the Morality of Memory, Christopher Grau, 64.1 (2006) #19 in 2020
24. Socialist Realism and Literary Theory, Gary Saul Morson, 38.2 (1979) #38 in 2020
25. Structure and Aesthetic at Hagia Sophia Constantinople, Anthony Cutler, 25.1 (1966) #69 in 2020

No longer on the top 25 list:

Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions, Jon Robson, Aaron Meskin, 74.2 (2016) #6 in 2020

Hume's Standard of Taste, Noel Carroll, 43.2 (1984) #9 in 2020

What Is Literary Realism? Mary Francis Slattery, 31.1 (1972) #11 in 2020

Aristotle on Comedy, Leon Golden, 42.3 (1984) #16 in 2020

Hume's Standard of Taste: The Real Problem, Jerrold Levinson, 60.3 (2002) #17 in 2020

What Is Wrong with a Forgery? Alfred Lessing, 23.4 (1965) #20 in 2020

Defining Comics? Aaron Meskin, 65.4 (2007) #21 in 2020

Art and Audience, Nick Zangwill, 57.3 (1999) #22 in 2020

"The Effects of Blackness": Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kant, Meg Armstrong, 54.3 (1996) #23 in 2020

Beauty Matters, Peg Zeglin Brand, 57.1 (1999) #24 in 2020