Vol. 5 No. 2 (2012): Il verso dell’immagine
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Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures

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  • Elisa Caldarola
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-11466

Published 2012-10-16

Keywords

  • Wollheim,
  • Greenberg,
  • Abstract,
  • Figurative

How to Cite

Caldarola, E. (2012). Representation without background? A critical reading of Wollheim and Greenberg on the representational character of abstract pictures. Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi dell’estetico, 5(2), 145–157. https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-11466
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Abstract

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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