Uncollected Writings - Writing on Art

About the author

Richard Wollheim (1923-2003)

Gary Kemp is Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of What Is This Thing called Philosophy of Language? (3rd edition, Routledge, 2024) and Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning (OUP, 2012).

Elisabetta Toreno is Lecturer at Open University. She is the author of Netherlandish and Italian Female Portraiture in the Fifteenth Century: Gender, Identity, and the Tradition of Power (Amsterdam University Press, 2022).

Summary

Writing on Art presents the text of a short book by Richard Wollheim (1923-2003) comprising two lectures on formalism and pictortial representation. The volume also contains reviews, short essays, and occasional pieces on aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Wollheim, Wollheim Richard
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.02.2025
• EAN: 9780198890126
• ISBN: 978-0-19-889012-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800