Art and its Objects
Art and its Objects
2nd Edition
Richard Wollheim
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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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9780521297066
288 pages
210 × 138 × 23 mm
0.41kg
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.
