Art and Its Objects

Informationen zum Autor Richard Wollheim (1923-2003) was one of the leading philosophers of aesthetics in the twentieth century. He was Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of California, Berkeley until 2002. Klappentext This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art. Zusammenfassung Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art continues to be an important and illuminating exploration of art and its objects. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery with a specially commissioned preface written by Richard Eldridge! this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to this edition Richard Eldridge; Preface to the second edition; The argument; 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; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Wollheim
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107113800
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11380-0
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Cambridge Philosophy Classics; Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works