A Companion to Aesthetics
Contributors: Crispin Sartwell (Editor)
Series: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: January 1993
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780631178019
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.