A Companion to Aesthetics
Contributors: David Cooper (Editor)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Limited
Published: August 1, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780631196594
First sentence: abstraction Absence of representation. In painting and sculpture, pure abstraction consists in the absence of representative elements, elements which recognizably resemble items in the external world and which the work is intended to portray.
Notes: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy