Richard Wollheim

Richard Arthur Wollheim (* May 5, 1923; † 4 November 2003) was an English philosopher, the ( mind ) was known for his work in the fields of aesthetics and philosophy of mind. One of his last works was the emotions. His major work, Painting as an Art is a philosophical psychology of painting. Wollheim was ( from 1992) the president of the British Society of Aesthetics.

Life

Richard Wollheim - son of a director and an actress - attended the Westminster School in London and 1941/42, and 1945 to 1948 Balliol College, Oxford. Wollheim fought in World War II in Europe. In 1949 he completed his studies at Oxford with a Bachelor and Masters. He had studied philosophy, political science and economics. Wollheim taught at University College London, where he was the Grote Professor of Mind and Logic, and was from 1963 to 1982, the dean of the faculty. Wollheim was a guest lecturer at Harvard, at the University of Minnesota, the City University of New York and elsewhere.

He left England in protest against Thatcherism and first went to Columbia University (1982-1985), then to Berkeley. He taught there until 2002 and was the Faculty of Arts from 1998 to 2002 before. From 1989 to 1996 he was, next to Berkeley, at the University of California at Davis.

As an emeritus he was a guest lecturer at Balliol College for a short time. Wollheim's lectures on painting as an art, which he in 1984 as the Andrew M. Mellon Professor of Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC held, were published in 1987 as Painting as an Art. His book Emotions based on Ernst Cassirer Lectures at Yale in 1991.

Wollheim was known for his mediation of analytic philosophy and teachings of Sigmund Freud.

His concentrated short text Art and its Objects was one of the most important treatises of the Anglo-Saxon analytic aesthetics. Wollheim was widely known for his work on the minimalism of modern art, but the essay from 1965, Minimal Art, not treated the Minimal Art

He has the novel A Family Romance written in the 1960s, and the posthumously published autobiography Germs also: A Memoir of Childhood was well received.

Publications

Monographs

• F. H. Bradley. Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1959. Second edition, 1969.
• Socialism and Culture, Fabian Tract, No. 331, Fabian Society, London, 1961.
• On Drawing on Object. Lewis, London, 1965. His inaugural lecture on 1 December 1964. Repr in On Art and the Mind.
• Art and Its Objects: An Introduction to Aesthetics, Harper & Row, New York, 1968.
• Art and its Objects: With Six Supplementary Essays. 2d edition. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1980. German edition: Objects of Art, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt, 1982 With the six additional essays by the 1980 edition Max Looser ( Translator ). ..

• German edition: Sigmund Freud, Munich, German Taschenbuch Verlag, 1972.

• German translation: emotions. A philosophy of emotions. Translated by Dietmar room. Beck, Munich, 2001.

Editorship

• The Image in Form: Selected Writings of Adrian Stokes, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1972 R. Wollheim, Introduction, pp. 9-31. .
• Freud: A Collection of Critical Essays (1974).
• Philosophical Essays on Freud, with James Hopkins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Papers

• Minimal Art, in: Arts Magazine, (January) 1965, p.26 -32. Repr in On Art and the Mind.
• On Expression and Expressionism. In: Revue Internationale de Philosophie, Volume 18, 1964, p 270-289.
• Nelson Goodman's Languages ​​of Art In: The Journal of Philosophy, Vol 62, No. 16 (August), 1970.
• Adrian Stokes, Critic, Painter, Poet ". In: The Times Literary Supplement, (February 17 ) 1978, pp. 207-209.
• A Bed of Leaves out. In: London Review of Books, Volume 25, No. 23 (December 4 ), 2003.