Uncollected writings : writing on art / author, Richard Wollheim ; editors, Gary Kemp, Elisabetta Toreno.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wollheim, Richard, 1923-2003, author.

Contributor:

Kemp, Gary, 1960 October 15- editor.

Toreno, Elisabetta, editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Art and philosophy.

Art criticism.

Aesthetics.

Art appreciation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (445 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

Richard Wollheim's (1923-2003) was the leading voice in the philosophy of art in the Anglo-American tradition during the second half of the 20th century. This volume serves two purposes. First, at the time of his death, Wollheim was composing a short book, comprising two lectures first delivered, respectively, at Barcelona and at Lawrence, Kansas - versions of which appeared in 1994 ('On Formalism and Its Kinds') and 2001 ('On Formalism and Pictorial Organisation') - plus substantial new material. The whole text is reproduced here for the first time.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Origins, Rights, and Permissions

Contents

Figures

Introduction

I. Biography

II. The Critical Art Historical Context

III. Aesthetics: Wollheim's Theoretical Contribution

Representation

Expression

Style

Visual Delight

IV. Wollheim's Legacy, and the Structure of the Volume

V. Technical Remarks

Part I Lectures

1 Pictorial Form and Pictorial Organization

Lecture I

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

Lecture II

Lecture III

Part II Style

2 Style Now (1975)

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

3 Aesthetics, Anthropology and Style: Some Programmatic Remarks (1978)

IX

X

XI

XII

Postscript

4 Style in Painting (1995)

Part III The Theory of Pictorial Representation

5 On Pictorial Representation (1998)

6 What Makes Representational Painting Truly Visual? (2003)

7 In Defense of Seeing-In (2003)

Part IV Wollheim on Others

8 Forms, Elements and Modernity: Reply to Michael Podro (1966)

9 A Critic of Our Time (1959)

10 The Image in Form: Introduction (1972)

11 Imagination and Pictorial Understanding (1986)

12 A Note on Mimesis as Make-Believe (1991)

13 Danto's Gallery of Indiscernibles (1993)

14 Walter Pater: From Philosophy to Art (1995)

15 Review of Problems of Art, by Susanne K. Langer (1957).

16 Professor Gombrich [Review of Meditations on a Hobby Horse] (1964)

17 Wittgenstein on Art (1966)

Part V Other Topics

18 Sociological Explanations of the Arts (1956)

19 On Expression and Expressionism (1964)

20 Neurosis and the Artist (1975)

21 On the Question 'Why Is Painting an Art?' (1984)

22 Art, Interpretation, and the Creative Process (1984)

23 The Core of Aesthetics (1991)

24 Why Is Drawing Interesting? (2005)

Appendix List of Artworks Discussed but not Reproduced, with URLs

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 8, 2025).

ISBN:

0-19-199576-2

0-19-889014-1

OCLC:

1483252693