Ontology of the Work of Art: The Musical Work, the Picture, the Architectural Work, the Film

by Roman S. Ingarden

In these studies Roman Ingarden investigates the nature and mode of being of four kinds of art works: the musical work, the picture, the architectural work, and the film. He establishes that the work of art is a purely intentional object but considers also its connections to the real world. By analyzing a work of art in its "constitutive heterogeneous strata," Ingarden demonstrates that a work of art will reveal, when examined in the appropriate way,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821405551
• ISBN13: 9780821405550
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"