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Work and object : explorations in the metaphysics of art / Peter Lamarque.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Description: xiii, 248 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0199577463
  • 9780199577460
Other title:
  • Work & object : Explorations in the metaphysics of art [Cover title]
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 700.1 22
LOC classification:
  • N70 .L36 2010eb
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. On bringing a work into existence -- 3. Work and object -- 4. Distinctness and indiscernibility in the allographic arts -- 5. Aesthetic essentialism -- 6. Aesthetic empiricism -- 7. Imitating style -- 8. Objects of interpretation -- 9. How to create a fictional character -- 10. Art, ontology and the end of nausea -- 11. On perceiving conceptual art.
Summary: Exploring certain fundamental metaphysical aspects of works of art, this book gives focus to a distinction between works and the materials that underlie or constitute them. This constitutive material might be physical or abstract.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. On bringing a work into existence -- 3. Work and object -- 4. Distinctness and indiscernibility in the allographic arts -- 5. Aesthetic essentialism -- 6. Aesthetic empiricism -- 7. Imitating style -- 8. Objects of interpretation -- 9. How to create a fictional character -- 10. Art, ontology and the end of nausea -- 11. On perceiving conceptual art.

Exploring certain fundamental metaphysical aspects of works of art, this book gives focus to a distinction between works and the materials that underlie or constitute them. This constitutive material might be physical or abstract.

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