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Art and its Objects

Art and its Objects

Art and its Objects

2nd Edition
Richard Wollheim
November 1980
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    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.

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    November 1980
    Hardback
    9780521228985
    278 pages
    210 × 138 mm
    0.5kg
    Replaced by 9780521297066

    Table of Contents

    • Part I. A Theory of Speech Acts:
    • 1. Methods and scope
    • 2. Expressions, meaning and speech acts
    • 3. The structure of illocutionary acts
    • 4. Reference as a speech act
    • 5. Predication
    • Part II. Some Applications of the Theory:
    • 6. Three fallacies in contemporary philosophy
    • 7. Problems of reference
    • 8. Deriving 'ought' from 'is'
    • Index.
      Author
    • Richard Wollheim