Study On Richard Wolheim's Representation Theory

Richard wolheim is the most important philosopher of Anaheim on twentieth Century,one of the aesthetician in the field of philosophy,many of the studies,he focused on the philosophy of mind.In terms of aesthetics,he devoted himself to the study of relationship between art and spirit.At the same time analysis esthetician share the same aesthetic analysis genre,but the study is different as domestic scholars often refer to Nelson Goodman as "artistic language",Arthur Danto's "art circle" theory and George Dickey's "artistic conventions" theory,and Wolheim can be called as "visual representation" of aesthetics.Wolheim's Aesthetics,is not an empty art topic,mainly for the art of painting,or to say,his painting as the center to understand the art of painting.The research focuses on the research process of watching painting ",rather than have" Objectized "paintings.Therefore,the" visual reproduction",”reproduction "viewing has become the art of painting or research the aesthetic research center.The first part is the historical origin of the theory of reproduction,in time for the sub standard,mainly divided into ancient and medieval,Renaissance and later in twentieth Century,before and after the three time periods.Devoted to ancient Western works and there is no systematic representation of the problem,not even reproduce this concept,but by the related the word--"imitation" as the center to discuss the issue of the representation of these remarks scattered Platon,Aristotle philosophy of ancient thinkers,rhetoric book and Quintilianus and Cicero's rhetoric,are discussed,and in the middle ages "sports icon" As the starting point for the discussion.The second part is the main part of the thesis,mainly explains the connotation of theory of reproduction,Waldo,"seeing-in" is the core concept of"visual representation",this is Wolheim's eye reproduction theory,"seeing-in" is the Wittgenstein visual Aesthetics "seemingly the concept of the further development of it,in the end is a kind of visual perception.That"seeing-in"world's first reproduction,is not because of the clouds in the sky a reproduction of the-images so that we can see something from it,but because we have something in mind before it is projected onto the cloud cognition.Thus,in the cloud to see Something like "representation".For itself,Wolheim is discussed,mainly from the"representation" of boundaries,analysis of "representation" category and"reproduction" of the nature of this three aspects.The map is represented?Abstract painting is represented?"seeing-in" world's associated with representation denied,the map is a map representation,is the use of a reading ability,and "seeing-in" no relationship.At the same time,he criticized this view denies non abstract painting reproduction,thus expanding the scope of reproduction.The wall is divided into"Heim will reproduce the "representations of Objects" and "representations of events",the other is the reproduction is divided into "representation of special objects and events" representations of particular objects and events" and"representations of objects and events".With the" naturalism",”vivid"." true to nature "these cross discussed in terms of sexual representation.Wolheim's representation theory,expanded the scope of representation,break the inherent mode,and in the art of painting as the discussion object,which has a positive significance.Especially the originality of the "seeing" concept,so the fourth part of this paper is to clarify the meaning and value of Wolheim representation theory.This the author summarizes the Wolheim representation theory,although it is on,but still hope for this sentimental readers to make modest,enrich the analysis of Wolheim's aesthetic thoughts on aesthetics.