TY - GEN AU - Goodman, Nelson TI - Languages of art : an approach to a theory of symbols SN - 9780915144341 U1 - 741.61 PY - 1976/// CY - Cambridge PB - Hackett Pub. Company KW - N1 - CONTENTS I REALITY REMADE 1. Denotation 3 2. Imitation 6 3. Perspective 10 4. Sculpture 19 5. Fictions 21 6. Representation-as 27 7. Invention 31 8. Realism 34 9. Depiction and Description 40 II THE Sound of Pictures 1. A Difference in Domain 45 2. A Difference in Direction 50 3. Exemplification 52 4. Samples and Labels 57 5. Facts and Figures 68 6. Schemata 71 7. Transfer 74 8. Modes of metaphor 81 9. Expression 85 III ART AND AUTHENTICITY. 1. The Perfect Fake 99 2. .The Answer 103 3. The Unfakable 112 4. The Reason 115 5. A Task 122 IV THE THEORY OF NOTATION 1. Primary Function 127 2. Synatactic Requirements 130 3. Composition of characters 141 4. Compliance 143 5. Semantic Requirements 148 6. Notations 154 7. Clocks and Counters 157 8. Analogs and digits 159 9. Inductive, Maps and Models 170 V Score, Sketch and script 1. Score 177 2. Music 179 3. Sketch 192 4. Painting 194 5. Script 199 6. Projectibility, Synonymy, Analyticity 201 7. Literary arts 207 8. Dance 211 9. Architecture 218 VI ART AND THE UNDERSTANDING 1. Pictures and Paragraphs 225 2. Searching and Showing 232 3. Action and Attitude 241 4. The Function of Feeling 245 5. Symptoms of the Aesthetic 252 6. The Question of Merit 255 7. Art and the Understanding 262 Subject Index 267 Name Index 275 ER -