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Art and its Objects

Art and its Objects

Art and its Objects

2nd Edition
Richard Wollheim
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9780521297066
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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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    Paperback
    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.
      Author
    • Richard Wollheim