Top 25 JStor downloads in 2021

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the top 25 downloaded articles from the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism from the JStor database in 2021.

Note that there is a six-year delay before JAAC articles are available on JStor. Immediate access to all JAAC articles is available on-line to all current members of the ASA via the Oxford University Press web site. 

1. The Nature of Horror, Noël Carroll 46.1 (1987)
2. Profound Offense and Cultural Appropriation, James O. Young 63.2 (2005)
   
3. The Image of Women in Film: A Defense of a Paradigm, Noël Carroll 48.4 (1990)
4. The Paradox of Horror: Fear as a Positive Emotion, Katerina Bantinaki 70.4 (2012)
5.  Street Art: The Transfiguration of the Commonplaces, Nicholas Alden Riggle 68.3 (2010)
6. What a Documentary Is, After All, Carl Plantinga 63.2 (2005)
7. The Readymades of Marcel Duchamp: The Ambiguities of an Aesthetic Revolution, Steven Goldsmith 42.2 (1983)
8. The Aesthetic Idea of Impressionism, Lionello Venturi 1.1 (1941)
9. The Role of Theory in Aesthetics, Morris Weitz 15.1 (1956)
10. Reading Mosques: Meaning and Architecture in Islam, Jale Nejdet Erzen 69.1 (2011)
11. Horror and Humor, Noël Carroll 57.2 (1999)
12. The Japanese Aesthetics of Imperfection and Insufficiency, Yuriko Saito 55.4 (1997)
13.  Race, Ethnicity, Expressive Authenticity: Can White People Sing the Blues? Joel Rudinow 52.1 (1994)
14. What Is Public Art?: Time, Place, and Meaning Hilde Hein 54.1 (1996)
15. Political Music and the Politics of Music, Lydia Goehr 52.1 (1994)
16. Satire, Analogy, and Moral Philosophy, Nicholas Diehl 71.4 (2013)
17. "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the Morality of Memory, Christopher Grau 64.1 (2006)
18. Panofsky, Iconography, and Semiotics, Christine Hasenmueller 36.3 (1978)
19. The Appeal of the Mystery, Alan H. Goldman 69.3 (2011)
20. Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist, Dan Flory 64.1 (2006)
21. "Primitive Fakes," "Tourist Art," and the Ideology of Authenticity, Larry Shiner 52.2 (1994)
22. Oppressive Texts, Resisting Readers and the Gendered Spectator: The New Aesthetics, Mary Devereaux 48.4 (1990)
23. Francisco Goya and the Intentions of the Artist, Roberta M. Alford 18.4 (1960)
24. Video Games as Self-Involving Interactive Fictions, Jon Robson, Aaron Meskin 74.2 (2016)
25. Improvisation in Dance, Curtis L. Carter 58.2 (2000)