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Art and its Objects Richard Wollheim

Art and its Objects By Richard Wollheim

Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim


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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.

Art and its Objects Summary

Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim

Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art considers central questions regarding expression, representation, style, the significance of the artist's intention and the essentially historical nature of art. Presented in a fresh series livery for the twenty-first century, with a specially commissioned preface written by Richard Eldridge, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, Art and its Objects continues to be a perceptive and engaging introduction to the questions and philosophical issues raised by works of art and the part they play in our culture and society. Wollheim's insights into theories of art, criticism, perception and the nature of aesthetic value make this one of the most influential works on aesthetics of the twentieth century.

Art and its Objects Reviews

'This concise, elegant and wide-ranging book has established itself as an indispensable text.' London Review of Books

About Richard Wollheim

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.

Table of Contents

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.

Additional information

NLS9781107534414
9781107534414
1107534410
Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim
New
Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2015-10-08
200
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