Works of Art
Peter Lamarque, 2 April 1981
Art and Its Objects
by Richard Wollheim.
Cambridge, 270 pp., £12.50, November 1980,0 521 22898 0 Show More
by Richard Wollheim.
Cambridge, 270 pp., £12.50, November 1980,
Works and Worlds of Art
by Nicholas Wolterstorff.
Oxford, 372 pp., £20, December 1980,0 19 824419 3 Show More
by Nicholas Wolterstorff.
Oxford, 372 pp., £20, December 1980,
“... in common between, say, Ulysses, Der Rosenkavalier, the ‘Donna Velata’ and Donatello’s St George in virtue of which they are all works of art? As if that were not hard enough, try adding prints, films, dances and buildings and the problem becomes intractable. Yet traditionally the aim of aesthetics has been to undertake an abstraction from the ... ”