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Nelson Goodman's Hockey Seen: A Philosopher's Approach To Performance, Curtis Carter
Nelson Goodman's Hockey Seen: A Philosopher's Approach To Performance, Curtis Carter
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Sculpture, Curtis Carter
Sculpture, Curtis Carter
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Painting And Language: A Pictoral Syntax Of Shapes, Curtis Carter
Painting And Language: A Pictoral Syntax Of Shapes, Curtis Carter
Philosophy Faculty Research and Publications
In previous articles, the author proposed that paintings can have syntactic rules. In this article he develops his proposal further and shows that shapes act as syntactic elements in the languages of painting styles. He meets Nelson Goodman's objections to his proposal by showing that shapes meet the criterion of syntactic discreteness proposed by the latter to separate linguistic from other symbolic systems. His approach is to specify style as the domain of a language of painting, to show that style is syntactical and to argue that shapes are the primitive syntactic elements of style. His essay relates current research …