Art and its Objects
2nd Edition
Published on 30. September 1980
Book
Paperback/Softback
288 pages
978-0-521-29706-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
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Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
410 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-29706-6 (9780521297066)
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Content
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.