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Author Wollheim, Richard, 1923-2003.

Title Art and its objects : with six supplementary essays / Richard Wollheim
Edition Second edition
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1980

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 MELB  701.17 Wol/Aai 1980  AVAILABLE
Description xv, 270 pages ; 22 cm
Contents Machine derived contents note: 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
Summary 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
Analysis Arts Aesthetics
Notes Previous ed.: New York : Harper & Row, 1968 ; Harmondsworth : Pelican, 1970
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 241-270
Subject Aesthetics.
LC no. 79020790
ISBN 0521228980
0521297060 (paperback)
0521437784 (canto edition)