Art and its objects : with six supplementary essays / Richard Wollheim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wollheim, Richard, 1923-2003.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xv, 270 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [1980]

Summary:

What defines a work of art and determines the way in which we respond to it? This classic reflection was written with the belief that the nature of art has to be understood simultaneously from the artist's as well as the spectator's viewpoint.

Contents:

I The Institutional theory of art 157

II Are the criteria of identity for works of art aesthetically relevant? 167

III A note on the physical object hypothesis 177

IV Criticism as retrieval 185

V Seeing-as, seeing-in, and pictorial representation 205

VI Art and evaluation 227.

Notes:

Bibliography: pages 241-270.

ISBN:

0521228980

OCLC:

5411986