Gary Iseminger

Intention and interpretation

Preface Introduction 1. In Defense of the Author - E.D. Hirsch, Jr. 2. The Authority of the Text - Monroe C. Beardsley 3. Robust Relativism - Joseph Margolis 4. The Impossibility of Intentionless Meaning - Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels 5. Interpretation, Intention, and Truth - Richard Schusterman 6. An Intentional Demonstration? - Gary Isminger 7. Art, Intention, and Conversation - Noel Carroll 8. Wittgensteinan Intentions - Colin Lyas 9. Intention and Interpretation: Hirsch and Margolis - Michael Krausz 10. Interpreting with Pragmatist Intentions - Richard Shusterman 11. Irony, Metaphor, and the Problem of Intention - Daniel O. Nathan 12. Allusions and Intentions - Goran Hermeren 13. Intention and Interpretation: A Last Look - Jerrold Levinson Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index of Names

Philosophy and the visual arts : seeing and abstracting

I Abstracting and Depicting.- Depiction and the Golden Calf.- Plates [1-14].- Painting, Expression, Abstraction.- Dimensions of Meaning.- Cubism - abstract or realist?.- Representing and Abstracting.- Alienation and Disalienation in Abstract Art.- On Attempting to Define Abstract Art.- Plates [15-27].- On Being an Abstract Artist.- II Depicting Colours.- Identity, Predication and Colour.- Colour Systems and Perception in Early Abstract Painting.- Colour, Culture and Cinematography.- Form and Meaning in Colour.- Colour Appearances and the Colour Solid.- III The Limits of Depiction.- Perspective and Meaning: Illusion, Allusion and Collusion.- Plates [28-40].- Looking at Pictures and Looking at Things.- Plates [41-44].- Some New Problems in Perspective.- The Limits of Portrayal.- Bibliography of Works Cited.