Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures
Focussing on some claims addressed by Richard Wollheim and Clement Greenberg I investigate how the concepts of depicted figure, background of a pictorial scene and ground of a picture are relevant for an understanding of the relation between figurative and abstract pictures, especially when it comes...
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2012-10-01
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| description | Focussing on some claims addressed by Richard Wollheim and Clement Greenberg I investigate how the concepts of depicted figure, background of a pictorial scene and ground of a picture are relevant for an understanding of the relation between figurative and abstract pictures, especially when it comes to consider whether abstract pictures can be said to represent pictorially. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-196cf60f9596436b95b04d0f19d8f2a22022-12-22T00:20:46ZengFirenze University PressAisthesis2035-84662012-10-0152Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract picturesElisa CaldarolaFocussing on some claims addressed by Richard Wollheim and Clement Greenberg I investigate how the concepts of depicted figure, background of a pictorial scene and ground of a picture are relevant for an understanding of the relation between figurative and abstract pictures, especially when it comes to consider whether abstract pictures can be said to represent pictorially.https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/618WollheimGreenbergAbstractFigurative |
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| title | Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures |
| title_full | Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures |
| title_fullStr | Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures |
| title_full_unstemmed | Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures |
| title_short | Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures |
| title_sort | representation without background a critical reading of wollheim and greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures |
| topic | Wollheim Greenberg Abstract Figurative |
| url | https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/618 |
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