Artworlds
Two essays on the objective intentional content of art have been published under the
Artworlds imprint, both written by Richard Leachman.
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Cognition and Cultural Change (1998 - ISBN 0 9517150
5 4) is a 60,000-word exposition of the theory of the objective intentional
contents of artworks.
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Recognition and Response in Contemporary Art (2000
- ISBN 0 9517150 4 6) is a 5,000-word account of the common failure to
distinguish between the (objective) recognition of the artist's intentional
content in an artwork, and the (subjective) response to that content.
It includes a brief theoretical description of how an artwork is technically
visually constructed, and how that is universally accessible as a precise
and specific content within the work.
A further publication, thebigframe monologues (2001 - ISBN
0 9517150 3 8), which contains three recorded monologues by artists
describing clearly and precisely how the intentional content in their work
is articulated, is on deposit at the six UK copyright libraries.
And the Artworlds Catalogue, containing transparencies and reproductions
of fifty contemporary artworks from around the world, plus descriptions of how
their respective contents are articulated, has been deposited at the British
Library, London, and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
The texts of the two theory essays can be downloaded in
pdf -
Cognition and Cultural
Change
Recognition and Response
in Contemporary Art
Artworlds™
is a creative scenario-making process, developed around the ideas discussed
in Cognition and Cultural Change, and designed for use principally in relation
to the strategic identity process Stellar® (see
www.stellar.eu). It can be
downloaded in pdf -
Artworlds
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Richard Leachman