Languages of Art: An Approach to a Theory of Symbols"Like Dewey, he has revolted against the empiricist dogma and the Kantian dualisms which have compartmentalized philosophical thought. . . . Unlike Dewey, he has provided detailed incisive argumentation, and has shown just where the dogmas and dualisms break down." --Richard Rorty, The Yale Review |
Contents
Introduction | xi |
Denotation | 9 |
Perspective | 12 |
Sculpture | 13 |
Representationas | 21 |
Realism | 27 |
Depiction and Description 40 | 32 |
II | 45 |
Syntactic Requirements | 130 |
Composition of Characters | 141 |
Semantic Requirements | 148 |
Notations | 154 |
Inductive Translation | 164 |
Diagrams Maps and Models | 170 |
SCORE SKETCH AND SCRIPT | 177 |
VI | 225 |
Exemplification | 52 |
Facts and Figures | 68 |
Facts and Figures | 69 |
III | 99 |
The Unfakable | 112 |
A Task | 122 |
Searching and Showing | 232 |
Action and Attitude | 241 |
Symptoms of the Aesthetic | 252 |
Art and the Understanding | 262 |
275 | |
Common terms and phrases
aesthetic difference aesthetic experience allographic ambiguous analog antecedent apply atomic autographic belong character Churchill classification cognitive color compliance-classes compliants comply constitute copy correlated course curves denotation dense set densely ordered depends depiction determine diagram distinguished Duke of Wellington emotions emplifies example exemplifies façade feeling fictive finite differentiation forgery function given green imply innocent eye inscriptions instance Labanotation label coextensive less light rays literal man-picture mark matter means merely looking metaphorical musical notation normal notational system object painting parallel perception performance perspective Pickwick pictorial properties picture represents possession predicate question rational realism realm reference relation Rembrandt representation represents the Duke requirements resemblance Reversed perspective sample score script semantic disjointness semantically dense soandso soandso-picture sort specific square picture standard symbol scheme symbol systems syntactic theory things tion tional ture unicorn usually verbal Visual Perception words work-preservation yellow blue