Imitation & Design and Other Essays
Imitation approaches identity with the thing imitated; design attenuates to a void. The visual arts must be practised somewhere between these two poles. The rival claims of the two for primary and the decision in favour of design occupy the first essay, which gives its name to Reid MacCallum''s projected book on the theory of art.
Concurrently Professor MacCallum was asking related questions in th...
Imitation approaches identity with the thing imitated; design attenuates to a void. The visual arts must be practised somewhere between these two poles. The rival claims of the two for primary and the decision in favour of design occupy the first essay, which gives its name to Reid MacCallum''s projected book on the theory of art.
Concurrently Professor MacCallum was asking related questions in th...
