An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

seems also in every particular case to be by and for particular makers and audiences, responding to problems and pressures that ...

[feeling].) The major theorists of representation, form, and expression– Aristotle, Kant, and Collingwood, and their contemporar ...

2 Representation, imitation, and resemblance Representation and aboutness Art products and performances seem in some rough sense ...

mere stroke were already a means of incipiently presenting a three- dimensional world on a two-dimensional surface. Yet these fa ...

universalinthe particular: for example, what it is like to recognize someone from the scar on his thigh (as Odysseus’s nurse Eur ...

be aware of the subject matteras it is experiencedfrom it. This makes it clear that what is presented in a successful imitation ...

These observations are surely correct. We do not see recognizable objectsin many abstract paintings or hear theminworks of music ...

many different forms in different cultural contexts, but if it is entirely absent then there is noworkof music, but only the emp ...

and contingencies of existence”; literature about common life and vernacular culture.^15 These representational potentials are n ...

resemblance and convention theories of depiction each seek to accommo- date. (i) We frequently understand which objectoa given w ...

object’s aspects is, Goodman claims, of no use. In undertaking to reproduce an aspect visually, we areconstruingan object, ident ...

and surface configurations of marks arenotlurking in the world to be noted and recorded independently ofourconstruing-establishi ...

A second objection of Walton’s proves more telling, and it begins to point the way toward combining and integrating elements of ...

is comparatively realistic when it is possible from inside the game of imagin- ing or pretending to explore the representer visu ...

seeingo–that is played with certain kinds of two-dimensional objects (paintings, photographs, prints, etc.) and three-dimensiona ...

bison or vase of flowers there, but in fact only a marked surface, so that our seeing of a bison or a vase of flowers is nonveri ...

matter S in a marked surface M, a theory of pictorial representation will also have to provide a standard of correctness for thi ...

color as disclosed through a pinhole) of the actual object that is depicted, and (b) the occlusion shape and the local color pre ...

occluding the rear rim from an oblique angle, so that objective occlusion shape is being captured to a degree.) Information-theo ...

of conscious experience and of depiction as a practice are somewhat slighted in his view. Is it so clear that, as Lopes argues,^ ...