The Objective Eye: Color, Form, and Reality in the Theory of Art

by John Hyman

Book Overview

"The longer you work, the more the mystery deepens of what appearance is, or how what is called appearance can be made in another medium."--Francis Bacon, painter

This, in a nutshell, is the central problem in the theory of art. It has fascinated philosophers from Plato to Wittgenstein. And it fascinates artists and art historians, who have always drawn extensively on philosophical ideas about language and representation, and on ideas about...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226365530
• ISBN13: 9780226365534
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"