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Art and its objects : with six supplementary essays / Richard Wollheim.

By: Wollheim, Richard, 1923-2003.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1980Edition: 2nd ed.Description: xviii, 270 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0521437784.Subject(s): AestheticsDDC classification: 700.1
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

What defines a work of art and determines the way in which we respond to it? Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art and its objects was written in the belief that the nature of art has to be understood simultaneously from the artist's and the spectator's viewpoint. In pursuit of this enquiry, Wollheim considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention, and the essentially historical nature of art. Art and its Objects is printed here with six essays concerned with related theories of art, criticism, representation, perception and the nature of aesthetic value. This collection offers a stimulating and perceptive introduction to the questions and philosophical issues raised by works of art and the part they play in our culture and society.

"An expanded version of an essay originally written for The Harper Guide to Philosophy, edited by Arthur Danto."

Bibliography: p. 241-270.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface to the second edition
  • Art and its objects
  • Supplementary essays
  • 1 The Institutional theory of art
  • 2 Are the criteria of identity for works of art aesthetically relevant?
  • 3 A note on the physical object hypothesis
  • 4 Criticism of retrieval
  • 5 Seeing-as, seeing-in and pictorial representation
  • 6 Art and evaluation

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