Richard Wollheim

Art and its Objects

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Philosophy Classics
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• 2 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 306g
• ISBN-13: 9781107534414
• ISBN-10: 1107534410
• Artikelnr.: 43365374

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.