Work and Object Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art

by Lamarque, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780199655496
• ISBN10: 0199655499
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-09-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that constitute them. Issues about the creation of works, what is essential and inessential to their identity, their distinct kinds of properties, their amenability to interpretation, the conditions under which they can go out of existence, and their relation to perceptually indistinguishable doubles (e.g. forgeries and parodies), areraised and debated. A core theme is that works like paintings, music, literature, sculpture, architecture, films, photographs, and multi-media installations, have fundamental features in common, as cultural artefacts, in spite of enormous surface differences. It is their nature as distinct kinds of things, grounded in distinct ontological categories, that is the subject of this enquiry.

Author Biography

Peter Lamarque is Professor of Philosophy at the University of York.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
On Bringing a Work into Existence	p. 33
Work and Object	p. 56
Distinctness and Indiscernibility in the Allographic Arts	p. 78
Aesthetic Essentialism	p. 95
Aesthetic Empiricism	p. 122
Imitating Style	p. 139
Objects of Interpretation	p. 153
How to Create a Fictional Character	p. 188
Art, Ontology, and the End of Nausea	p. 208
On Perceiving Conceptual Art	p. 220
Bibliography	p. 234
Index	p. 245
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