Work and Object is a study of fundamental questions in the
metaphysics of art, notably how works relate to the materials that
constitute them. Issues about the creation of works, what is
essential and inessential to their identity, their distinct kinds
of properties, including aesthetic properties, their amenability to
interpretation, their style, the conditions under which they can go
out of existence, and their relation to perceptually
indistinguishable doubles (e.g. forgeries and parodies), are raised
and debated. A core theme is that works like paintings, music,
literature, sculpture, architecture, films, photographs,
multi-media installations, and many more besides, have fundamental
features in common, as cultural artefacts, in spite of enormous
surface differences. It is their nature as distinct kinds of
things, grounded in distinct ontological categories, that is the
subject of this enquiry. Although much of the discussion is
abstract, based in analytical metaphysics, there are numerous
specific applications, including a study of Jean-Paul Sartre's
novel La Nausee and recent conceptual art. Some surprising
conclusions are derived, about the identity conditions of works and
about the difference, often, between what a work seems to be and
what it really is.
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