Fregean Realism

Andrei Pop is Allan and Jean Frumkin professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Frodo Lives!Chapter 1: What Fiction Could Not BeChapter 2: From Make-Believe to RealismChapter 3: Frege’s Theory of PicturesChapter 4: Art and TruthsChapter 5: Allegory and its DiscontentsChapter 6: Sculpture as Cubic FormChapter 7: Bolzano on the Objectivity of Ugliness (and Beauty)Chapter 8: Aesthetic Properties: From the Sublime to the RidiculousChapter 9: Goya and the Paradox of ToleranceChapter 10: On First Person Perspective(s)Conclusion: Flower Arranging in the Library of BabelBibliographyNotesAbout the Author

“Andrei Pop’s Fregean Realism is an innovative application of Frege’s accounts of sense, reference, and assertion to pictorial meaning, providing a perspective from which it is possible to appreciate overlooked points of connection between rival accounts of the experience of depiction. Pop brings his Platonist realism to bear on a wide range of issues central to art and its history: the nature of allegory, of symbolism, of sculptural form, of aesthetic properties, and of pictorial truth and knowledge. The joint attention paid to demanding texts in the history of early analytic philosophy and European art history is both enlivening and revealing.”