Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-244) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. On bringing a work into existence -- 3. Work and object -- 4. Distinctness and indiscernibility in the allographic arts -- 5. Aesthetic essentialism -- 6. Aesthetic empiricism -- 7. Imitating style -- 8. Objects of interpretation -- 9. How to create a fictional character -- 10. Art, ontology and the end of nausea -- 11. On perceiving conceptual art.
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Exploring certain fundamental metaphysical aspects of works of art, this book gives focus to a distinction between works and the materials that underlie or constitute them. This constitutive material might be physical or abstract.