Art As Language
Subtitle: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: May 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780801485312
Subjects: Aesthetics; Esthetics; Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Philosophy; Linguistics
First sentence: This book attempts to assess the significance of one particular kind of work in the philosophy of language, specifically that of Ludwig Wittgenstein, both for some widely influential systematic aesthetic theories and for some less formalized but nevertheless powerfully influential ways of thinking about artistic meaning.