Painting as an Art - Wollheim Richard - 1987

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384 pages. Covers have light creasing. Edges of covers have superficial edgewear and corners are moderately bumped. Spine has minimal reading creases. Page edges are lightly browned and slightly soiled. In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions--philosophy, psychology, art--and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it. In order to fully appreciate a work of art, Wollheim argued, critics must bring to the understanding of a work of art a much richer conception of human psychology than they have in the past: "Many . . . make do with a psychology that, if they tried to live their lives by it, would leave them at the end of an ordinary day without lovers, friends, or any insight into how this came about." Many reviewers have remarked on the insightfulness of the book's final chapter, in which Wollheim contended that certain paintings by Titian, Bellini, de Kooning, and others represent the painters' attempts to project fantasies about the human body onto the canvas. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Art & Design; ISBN: 0500275815. ISBN/EAN: 9780500275818. Inventory No: 19060184. By: Wollheim Richard Year: 1987 Visit our website to view thousands more products like this and order online at: