Richard Wollheim

Art and its Objects

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781107113800
• ISBN-10: 1107113806
• Artikelnr.: 43363561

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.