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) (2012)
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Focussing on some claims 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 considering whether abstract pictures can be said to represent pictorially

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Elisa Caldarola
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