Work and Object: Explorations in the Metaphysics of Art

1st ed. thus softback with stiff wrappers As New octavo xiii + 248pp., bibliog., index, 'Peter Lamarque explores metaphysical aspects of works of art, looking at their status as cultural artefacts, their distinctive kinds of properties, their relation to interpretation, their style. He reaches surprising conclusions about the identity conditions of works and about the difference between what a work seems to be and what it really is.'.