Philosophy and the Visual Arts Seeing and Abstracting
This volume consists of papers given to the Royal Institute of Philos ophy Conference on 'Philosophy and the Visual Arts: Seeing and Abstracting' given at the University of Bristol in September 1985. The contributors here come about equally from the disciplines of Philosophy and Art Histo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1987, 1987
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1987 |
| Series: | Royal Institute of Philosophy Conferences
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I Abstracting and Depicting
- Depiction and the Golden Calf
- Painting, Expression, Abstraction
- Dimensions of Meaning
- Cubism — abstract or realist?
- Representing and Abstracting
- Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art
- On Attempting to Define Abstract Art
- On Being an Abstract Artist
- II Depicting Colours
- Identity, Predication and Colour
- Colour Systems and Perception in Early Abstract Painting
- Colour, Culture and Cinematography
- Form and Meaning in Colour
- Colour Appearances and the Colour Solid
- III The Limits of Depiction
- Perspective and Meaning: Illusion, Allusion and Collusion
- Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things
- Some New Problems in Perspective
- The Limits of Portrayal
- Bibliography of Works Cited