Subjects and Objects
Art, Essentialism, and Abstraction
Published on 9. March 2007
Book
Hardback
412 pages
978-90-04-15714-9 (ISBN)
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The subject matter of Subjects and Objects is the limits of Abstraction in art. The notion of Abstraction, its development in art history, and the relation of art and philosophy regarding Abstraction are considered in addition to identifying and examining things that are essential to artworks. Any artwork has an identity, and comprehension of that identity depends on a perceptual object. A subject's apprehension of such an object creates an "artistic complex" of which the object, the subject, and the apprehension are constituents. The essential elements of this kind of complex are the subject of the final part of the work. Its concluding section considers these elements as 'material' to be used to determine the limits of Abstraction.
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Language
English
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Leiden
Netherlands
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 244 mm
Width: 167 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
894 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-15714-9 (9789004157149)
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Jeffrey Strayer
Subjects and Objects: Art, Essentialism, and Abstraction
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Jeffrey Strayer is a Continuing Lecturer in Philosophy at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, U. S. A. Strayer is also an artist and is at work on a series of artworks in which the limits of Abstraction are determined.
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I. PRELIMINARY ISSUES RELEVANT TO ESSENTIALIST ABSTRACTION
PART II. ON SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS AND WORKS OF ART: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND BASIC POINTS OF RELEVANCE TO ESSENTIALIST ABSTRACTION
Introduction
Division I. Singling Something Out, Artistic Identity, and Intentional Actions
Division II. Artists, Objects, and Some Minimum Conditions of Artistic Identity
Division III. Artistic Identity, Subjects, and Apprehensible Objects
Division IV. Artworks and Kinds of Object
Division V. Art and the Aesthetic
PART III. ON SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS AND ARTISTIC COMPLEXES: THE MATERIAL OF ESSENTIALISM
Introduction
Division I. The Notion of an Artistic Complex and Things of Relevance to It
Division II. Artistic Complexes and Subjects
Division III. Artistic Complexes and Objects
Division IV. Subjects and Objects and Artistic Complexes
Division V. The Essential Elements of Artistic Complexes
Part IV. Identity and Subjects, Objects, and Language: Concluding Remarks as a Preamble to an Essentialist Investigation of the Limits of Abstraction
Appendices
Appendix I. On the Notions of Object, Property, Haecceity, and Diversity.
Appendix II. Leibniz's Law, the Laws of Identity and Difference, and the Identity of Indiscernibles
Appendix III. Distinction, Discrimination, and Distinguishability
Appendix IV. Impossible Objects
Works Mentioned in the Text and Selected Bibliography
Index
Introduction
PART I. PRELIMINARY ISSUES RELEVANT TO ESSENTIALIST ABSTRACTION
PART II. ON SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS AND WORKS OF ART: GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS AND BASIC POINTS OF RELEVANCE TO ESSENTIALIST ABSTRACTION
Introduction
Division I. Singling Something Out, Artistic Identity, and Intentional Actions
Division II. Artists, Objects, and Some Minimum Conditions of Artistic Identity
Division III. Artistic Identity, Subjects, and Apprehensible Objects
Division IV. Artworks and Kinds of Object
Division V. Art and the Aesthetic
PART III. ON SUBJECTS AND OBJECTS AND ARTISTIC COMPLEXES: THE MATERIAL OF ESSENTIALISM
Introduction
Division I. The Notion of an Artistic Complex and Things of Relevance to It
Division II. Artistic Complexes and Subjects
Division III. Artistic Complexes and Objects
Division IV. Subjects and Objects and Artistic Complexes
Division V. The Essential Elements of Artistic Complexes
Part IV. Identity and Subjects, Objects, and Language: Concluding Remarks as a Preamble to an Essentialist Investigation of the Limits of Abstraction
Appendices
Appendix I. On the Notions of Object, Property, Haecceity, and Diversity.
Appendix II. Leibniz's Law, the Laws of Identity and Difference, and the Identity of Indiscernibles
Appendix III. Distinction, Discrimination, and Distinguishability
Appendix IV. Impossible Objects
Works Mentioned in the Text and Selected Bibliography
Index