Art and Abstract Objects
ISBN: 9780199691494 | 0199691495
Format: HardcoverPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 3/1/2013
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Art and Abstract Objectspresents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and the core areas of philosophy. The standard way of thinking about non-repeatable (single-instance) artworks such as paintings, drawings, and non-cast sculpture is that they areconcrete(i.e., material, causally efficacious, located in space and time). Da Vinci'sMona Lisais currently located in Paris. Richard Serra'sTilted Arcis 73 tonnes of solid steel. Johannes Vermeer'sThe Concertwas stolen in 1990 and remains missing. Michaelangelo'sDavidwas atta... MORE
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Art, Metaphysics, and The Paradox of Standards, Christy Mag Uidhir
General Ontological Issues
1. Must Ontological Pragmatism Be Self-Defeating?, Guy Rohrbaugh
2. Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation, Jerrold Levinson
3. Destroying Artworks, Marcus Rossberg
Informative Comparisons
4. Art, Open-Endedness, and Indefinite Extensibility, Roy T. Cook
5. Historical Individuals Like A... MORE
Christy Mag Uidhir is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Houston. His main area of research is the philosophy of art. He has published articles in such journals as Philosophers' Imprint, Philosophical Studies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, American Philosophical Quarterly, The British Journal of Aesthetics, and The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism. He is currently at work on an original monograph, tentatively titled The Attempt Theory of Art (under contract with Oxford University Press).
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