Main entry:

Goodman, Nelson.

Title & Author:

Languages of art : an approach to a theory of symbols / Nelson Goodman.

Edition:

2d ed.

Publication:

Indianapolis : Hackett, 1976.

Description:

xiii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes indexes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
REALITY REMADE -- Denotation -- Imitation -- Perspective -- Sculpture -- Fictions -- Representation-as -- Invention -- Realism -- Depiction and Description -- THE SOUND OF PICTURES -- A Difference in Domain -- A Difference in Direction -- Exemplification -- Samples and Labels -- Facts and Figures -- Schemata -- Transfer -- Modes of Metaphor -- Expression -- ART AND AUTHENTICITY -- The Perfect Fake -- The Answer -- The Unfakable -- The Reason -- A Task -- THE THEORY OF NOTATION -- The Primary Function -- Syntactic Requirements -- Composition of Characters -- Compliance -- Semantic Requirements -- Notations -- Clocks and Counters -- Analogs and Digits -- Inductive Translation -- Diagrams, Maps, and Models -- SCORE, SKETCH, AND SCRIPT -- Score -- Music -- Sketch -- Painting -- Script -- Projectibility, Synonymy, Analyticity -- Literary Arts -- Dance -- Architecture -- ART AND THE UNDERSTANDING -- Pictures and Paragraphs -- Searching and Showing -- Action and Attitude -- The Function of Feeling -- Symptoms of the Aesthetic -- The Question of Merit -- Art and the Understanding.

Summary:

"One of the greatest works in philosophical aesthetics of this century, Languages of Art presents 'a systematic study of symbols and symbol systems and the way they function in our perceptions and actions and arts and sciences, and thus in the creation and comprehension of our worlds'. This enquiry, ranging across psychology, linguistics, the theory of mind, technology, and the sciences, furnishes a deeper understanding of art in its many forms--music, dance, literature, and the visual arts."-- back cover.

ISBN:

0915144352
9780915144358
0915144344
9780915144341

Subject:

Symbolism.
Signs and symbols.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Symbolisme.
Signes et symboles.
Théorie de la connaissance.
symbols.
epistemology.
symbolism (artistic concept)
20.06 philosophy of art.
Kunst.
Symboliek.
Psychologische aspecten.
Filosofia da arte.
Filosofia da linguagem.
Estética (filosofia)
Semiologia.
Art Philosophy.
Sémiotique et art.
Esthétique.
Symbolism (konst)
Vetenskaposteori.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 57689
Call No.: ID:90-B6037
Status: Available