Work and object : explorations in the metaphysics of art / Peter Lamarque.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lamarque, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (263 p.)

Other Title:

Work & object

Explorations in the metaphysics of art

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Exploring certain fundamental metaphysical aspects of works of art, this book gives focus to a distinction between works and the materials that underlie or constitute them. This constitutive material might be physical or abstract.

Contents:

1. Introduction

2. On bringing a work into existence

3. Work and object

4. Distinctness and indiscernibility in the allographic arts

5. Aesthetic essentialism

6. Aesthetic empiricism

7. Imitating style

8. Objects of interpretation

9. How to create a fictional character

10. Art, ontology and the end of nausea

11. On perceiving conceptual art.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Sept. 7, 2010).

Includes bibliogrphical references and index.

Other Format:

Print screen:

ISBN:

0-19-161466-1

0-19-965549-9

1-282-71262-4

9786612712623

0-19-159149-1

OCLC:

922969839