Philosophizing Art : Selected Essays

These essays explore the relationship between art and philosophy through a number of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas, or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual terms.

The essays cover a varied terrain, with subjects including Giotto's use of olfactory data in "The Raising of Lazarus"; chairs in art and chairs as art; Mel Bochner's Wittgenstein drawings; the work of Robert Motherwell, Andy Warhol, and Robert Irwin; Louis Kahn as "Archai-Tekt"; and visual truth in film.

Also featured are a meditation on the battle of Gettysburg; and a celebration of the Japanese artist Shiko Munakata, an essay that is partly autobiographical.