"Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video add…
"Offering historical and theoretical positions from a variety of art historians, artists, curators, and writers, this groundbreaking collection is the first substantive sourcebook on abstraction in moving-image media. With a particular focus on art since 2000, Abstract Video add…
Michael Dummett's work on the problem of abstract objects is central to contemporary debates within the philosophy of language and mathematics. This book offers an historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examining in detail some of the…
"This historically-informed critical assessment of Dummett's account of abstract objects, examines in detail some of the Fregean presuppositions of Dummett's account whilst also engaging with phenomenological approaches and recent work on the problem of abstract entities."--Publ…
'Art and Abstract Objects' presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and core areas of philosophy. A team of contributors examine the ontological nature of repeatable artworks - such as plays, novels, and films - as abstract objects, which are immate…
This book presents 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 are concrete (i.e., ma…
This book presents 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 are concrete (i.e., ma…
'Art and Abstract Objects' presents a lively philosophical exchange between the philosophy of art and core areas of philosophy. A team of contributors examine the ontological nature of repeatable artworks - such as plays, novels, and films - as abstract objects, which are immate…
This book presents 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 are concrete (i.e., ma…
"This book explores the relation of abstract art to nature. Traditional picturing and sculpture are based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation "of". Abstract works, in contrast, adopt alternative modes of visual representation, or …
Friederike Moltmann presents an original approach to philosophical issues to do with abstract objects. She focuses on natural language, and finds that reference to abstract objects such as properties, numbers, and propositions is much more restricted than is generally thought, a…
