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One of the twentieth century's most influential texts on philosophical aesthetics Painting as an Art is acclaimed philosopher Richard Wollheim's encompassing vision of how to view art. Transcending the traditional boundaries of art history, Wollheim draws on his three great passions--philosophy, psychology, and art--to present an illuminating theory of the very experience of art. He shows how to unlock the meaning of a painting by retrieving--...

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A brilliant, meandering exploration of family and childhood memory by one of the most original British philosophers of the twentieth century.Germs is about first things, the seeds from which a life grows, as well as about the illnesses it incurs, the damage it sustains. Written at the end of the life of Richard Wollheim, a major British philosopher of the second half of the twentieth century, this memoir is not the usual story of growing up, b...

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The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in the moral life and psychoanalysis, has always been at the core of Richard Wollheim's celebrated work. This book brings together Wollheim's broad and abiding concerns to illuminate human thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, these essays reveal the critical connections between ideas and disciplines too often...

Wollheims Buch faßt die in viele Einzeldiskussionen zersplitterte neuere Ästhetiktheorie zusammen und leistet eine Synthese, die auf einer ebenso großen Vertrautheit mit der traditionellen und heutigen Kunstphilosophie wie mit den Künsten, vor allem Malerei, Dichtung und Musik beruht, es schließt an Theorieprobleme an, wie sie u. a. durch Gombrich, Goodman - und Benjamin- dargestellt wurden.

Distinguished philosopher Richard Wollheim's rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions considers what emotions are, how they arise in our lives, and how standard and "moral" emotions differ. Drawing on insights from literature, psychoanalysis, and philosophy, Wollheim argues that emotions form a distinct psychological category, not to be assimilated with either beliefs or desires.

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This book is an influential study of the central questions and philosophical issues raised by art.

Richard Wollheim's classic reflection on art continues to be an important and illuminating exploration of art and its objects. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery with a specially commissioned preface written by Richard Eldridge, this influential work is now available for a new generation of readers.

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Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a "Gaiety Girl” mother, together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. Germs is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming...

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