Main entry:

Goodman, Nelson.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : Hackett Publishing Comp, 1976.

Description:

XIII, 277 pages

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.

ISBN:

0915144352
9780915144358
0915144344 (pbk.)

Subject:

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

Holdings:

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