Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art, having focused on two core, interrelated questions: How do paintings depict? and how do they express feelings? In this collection, a distinguished group of thinkers in the fields of art history and philosophical aesthetics offers a critical assessment of Wollheim's theory of art. In the final essay Wollheim himself responds to the contributors. This book will be eagerly sought out by all serious students of the theory of art, whether in departments of philosophy or art history.
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"No large library collection will be complete without commentary on this major aesthetician, and small collections will benefit from the inclusion of this handy, single volume to address inquiries on art, art history, methodology, painting theory, and criticism." Art Documentation
"Wolheim's discipline of philosophical aesthetics and art history is honored and scrutinized in this highly profound book.... In spite of the fact that the book is almost imageless, it will engage every serious art historian and philosopher of art.... Highly recommended." Choice
"This is an important volume." Philosophy in Review
"Wolheim's discipline of philosophical aesthetics and art history is honored and scrutinized in this highly profound book.... In spite of the fact that the book is almost imageless, it will engage every serious art historian and philosopher of art.... Highly recommended." Choice
"This is an important volume." Philosophy in Review
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Richard Wollheim is one of the dominant figures in the philosophy of art, having focused on two core, interrelated questions: How do paintings depict? and how do they express feelings? In this collection, a distinguished group of thinkers in the fields of art history and philosophical aesthetics offers a critical assessment of Wollheim's theory of art. In the final essay Wollheim himself responds to the contributors.This book will be eagerly sought out by all serious students of the theory of art, whether in departments of philosophy or art history.
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This tells us something, in fact it tells us two things, two philosophical things, about representation. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
expressive perception, experienced resemblance, internal spectator, suitable spectator, depictive content, positive repertoire, pictorial seeing, centrally imagining, cognitive stock, external spectator, resembling term, implied spectator, recognitional skill, pictorial understanding, artistic empathy, projective properties, white zip, complex projection, tational content, projective property, psychological repertoire, perceptual hypothesis, pictorial meaning, expressive properties, pictorial properties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Wollheim, Malcolm Budd, Michael Baxandall, Michael Podro, Svetlana Alpers, Caspar David Friedrich, Barnett Newman, Paul Crowther, Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman, Philosophy of Value, Philosophical Investigations, Rembrandt's Bathsheba, Renée van de Vall, Stanley Cavell, The Disembarcation, Alfredo Jaar, Chardin's Return, Greg Currie, Hendrickje Stoffels, John Shearman, Saint Francis, Understanding Pictures, Venus Rising, The Conception of Value New!
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expressive perception, experienced resemblance, internal spectator, suitable spectator, depictive content, positive repertoire, pictorial seeing, centrally imagining, cognitive stock, external spectator, resembling term, implied spectator, recognitional skill, pictorial understanding, artistic empathy, projective properties, white zip, complex projection, tational content, projective property, psychological repertoire, perceptual hypothesis, pictorial meaning, expressive properties, pictorial properties Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Richard Wollheim, Malcolm Budd, Michael Baxandall, Michael Podro, Svetlana Alpers, Caspar David Friedrich, Barnett Newman, Paul Crowther, Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman, Philosophy of Value, Philosophical Investigations, Rembrandt's Bathsheba, Renée van de Vall, Stanley Cavell, The Disembarcation, Alfredo Jaar, Chardin's Return, Greg Currie, Hendrickje Stoffels, John Shearman, Saint Francis, Understanding Pictures, Venus Rising, The Conception of Value New!
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- Painting as an Art by Richard Wollheim on 26 pages
- Art and its Objects by Richard Wollheim on 12 pages
- Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation (v. 6) by E.H. Gombrich on 7 pages
- Philosophical Investigations (3rd Edition) by Ludwig Wittgenstein on 6 pages
- Languages of Art by Nelson Goodman on 6 pages
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- The Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature by Malcolm Budd in Back Matter
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