List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction PART I: How The Formulation of an Answerable Aesthetics Can Be Applied to Evaluating and Understanding Existing Works of Visual Art 1 Architectonics and Once-Occurrent Being 2 Outward Appearance - a Segue into Visual Art 3 Interpersonal Architectonics as the Foundation for Ethics and Aesthetics 4 My Task, Your Task 5 The Hero in Art - Examples of Bakhtin's Architectonics and Author-Hero Relations in Visual Art 6 Heroes beyond the Human (1) Metaphorical Heroes 7 Dostoevsky - Pictorial Paradigm or Problem 8 A Possible Paradigm of the Dostoevskian Artist - Tilman 9 Dostoevsky and Aleatory Process 10 Speech Genres and Chronotopes PART II: Bakhtin's Metalinguistic Theories and General Problems of Transposability to the Visual Arts 11 Introduction 12 Units of Meaning Versus Units of Grammar - Towards a Typology of Style/Genres in Visual Art 13 Thinking in Words or Images 14 Synthetic Cubism 15 Post Cubism Afterword: A Consummation Devoutly to be Wished or Dreaded Possible Opportunities for Further Research Endnotes Bibliography Index.