In this original work on aesthetics, philosopher John Dilworth offers an unusual theory of the nature of artworks. "The Double Content" (DC) view is the first comprehensive theory of art that is able to satisfactorily explain the nature of all kinds of artworks in a unified way - whether paintings, novels, or musical and theatrical performances. Dilworth's basic thesis is that all such representational artworks involve two levels or kinds of representation: a first stage in which a concrete artefact represents an artwork, and a second stage in which that artwork in turn represents its subject matter. Thus, Dilworth describes his approach as a double content (DC) theory, since arguably all content is the content of some representation or other.
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"Dilworth applies his theory across the arts and to a variety of issues, demonstrating that it has far-reaching implications for our philosophical understanding of the nature of art." - Stephen Davies, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland
"... an amazingly ambitious and wide-ranging book.... it challenges much of the conventional wisdom about what artworks are." - Robert Stecker, Professor of Philosophy, Central Michigan University
"Entirely original, a landmark achievement, Dilworth's book belongs on every bookshelf." - Dominic McIver Lopes, Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
"Through intriguing thought-experiments and analytical reasoning, Dilworth challenges widely-held philosophical positions and adds a distinctive and important voice to core debates in aesthetics. - Peter Lamarque, Professor of Philosophy, University of York
John Dilworth is professor of philosophy at Western Michigan University, and the author of many scholarly articles in aesthetics
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This book offers an original theory of the nature of artworks, centered round the general thesis-the "representational content" or RC thesis-that all artworks occur solely as the representational content of some concrete representation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intrinsic top, distinct artworks, construed subject matter, inverted building, same field orientation, matter invariance, aspectual representation, relevant fictional world, orientational analysis, visual construal, artifact claim, orientational issues, physical painting, token segregation, orientational concepts, eliminative approach, identifying interpretation, upright picture, corresponding artwork, double content, design token, orientational factors, upright building, inverted car, relevant artwork Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Wollheim, New York, Understanding Pictures, Harvard University Press, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Art Criticism, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Jerrold Levinson, Arthur Danto, Cornell University Press, Joseph Margolis, Princeton University Press, Clarendon Press, Dominic Lopes, Stephen Davies, Andrew Harrison, Ernst Gombrich, Kendall Walton, Pierre Menard, Don Quixote, Fictional Points of View, Jacques Ebert, Michael Podro, Nelson Goodman New!
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This book offers an original theory of the nature of artworks, centered round the general thesis-the "representational content" or RC thesis-that all artworks occur solely as the representational content of some concrete representation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
intrinsic top, distinct artworks, construed subject matter, inverted building, same field orientation, matter invariance, aspectual representation, relevant fictional world, orientational analysis, visual construal, artifact claim, orientational issues, physical painting, token segregation, orientational concepts, eliminative approach, identifying interpretation, upright picture, corresponding artwork, double content, design token, orientational factors, upright building, inverted car, relevant artwork Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Wollheim, New York, Understanding Pictures, Harvard University Press, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace, Art Criticism, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Jerrold Levinson, Arthur Danto, Cornell University Press, Joseph Margolis, Princeton University Press, Clarendon Press, Dominic Lopes, Stephen Davies, Andrew Harrison, Ernst Gombrich, Kendall Walton, Pierre Menard, Don Quixote, Fictional Points of View, Jacques Ebert, Michael Podro, Nelson Goodman New!
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- Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim on 16 pages
- Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim on 13 pages
- Understanding Pictures (Oxford Philosophical Monographs) by Dominic Lopes on 12 pages
- Art and Philosophy (Eclipse books) by Joseph Zalman Margolis on 7 pages
- Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (v. 6) by E.H. Gombrich on 7 pages
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- Reference and Essence (Studies in Analytic Philosophy) by Nathan U. Salmon in Front Matter
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