Conceptual Abstraction

Conceptual Abstraction
Author: Pepe Karmel
Publisher: Hunter College
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Conceptual art
ISBN: 9780983926160

Conceptual Abstraction was the title of a landmark exhibition held at the Sidney Janis Gallery in New York in 1991. Abstract art was then out of fashion, and the news that a blue-chip gallery like Janis was doing a show of new abstract painting stirred up excitement in the art world, inspiring competing surveys and a raft of articles by artists and critics. More than 20 years later, the Hunter College Art Galleries are presenting a new iteration of the show, reuniting the original group of painters: Ross Bleckner, David Diao, Lydia Dona, Christian Eckart, Stephen Ellis, Peter Halley, Mary Heilmann, Valerie Jaudon, Richard Kalina, Shirley Kaneda, Bill Komoski, Jonathan Lasker, Sherrie Levine, Thomas Nozkowski, David Reed, David Row, Peter Schuyff, Philip Taaffe, Stephen Westfall and John Zinsser. This volume includes a facsimile of the 1991 catalogue with its introduction by Carroll Janis and statements by the artists.

The Limits of Abstraction

The Limits of Abstraction
Author: Kit Fine
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2002-08-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0191567264

What is abstraction? To what extent can it account for the existence and identity of abstract objects? And to what extent can it be used as a foundation for mathematics? Kit Fine provides rigorous and systematic answers to these questions along the lines proposed by Frege, in a book concerned both with the technical development of the subject and with its philosophical underpinnings. Fine proposes an account of what it is for a principle of abstraction to be acceptable, and these acceptable principles are exactly characterized. A formal theory of abstraction is developed and shown to be capable of providing a foundation for both arithmetic and analysis. Fine argues that the usual attempts to see principles of abstraction as forms of stipulative definition have been largely unsuccessful but that there may be other, more promising ways of vindicating the various forms of contextual definition. The Limits of Abstraction breaks new ground both technically and philosophically, and is essential reading for all those working on the philosophy of mathematics.

Perspectives on Abstract Concepts

Perspectives on Abstract Concepts
Author: Marianna Bolognesi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2019-06-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027262527

Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract entities, such as theories and feelings. But how are these abstract concepts grounded in human cognition and represented in the mind? How are they constructed in language? And how are they used in natural communication settings? This book addresses these questions through a collection of studies that relate to various theoretical frameworks, ranging from Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Words as Social Tools. Contributors investigate how abstract concepts are grounded in the mind, represented in language, and used in verbal discourse. This richness is matched by a range of methods used throughout the volume, from neuroimaging to computational modeling, and from behavioral experiments to corpus analyses.

Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art

Cartographic Abstraction in Contemporary Art
Author: Claire Reddleman
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 301
Release: 2017-11-27
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1351777939

In this book, Claire Reddleman introduces her theoretical innovation "cartographic abstraction" – a material modality of thought and experience that is produced through cartographic techniques of depiction. Reddleman closely engages with selected artworks (by contemporary artists such as Joyce Kozloff, Layla Curtis, and Bill Fontana) and theories in each chapter. Reconfiguring the Foucauldian underpinning of critical cartography towards a materialist theory of abstraction, cartographic viewpoints are theorised as concrete abstractions. This research is positioned at the intersection of art theory, critical cartography and materialist philosophy.

The Philosophy of Mathematics Today

The Philosophy of Mathematics Today
Author: Matthias Schirn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2003
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780199262625

Representing the state of the art in the field of the philosophy of mathematics, this collection of 20 essays deals with fundamental issues, ranging from the nature of mathematical knowledge to sets and natural 'number'.

Abstraction & Economy

Abstraction & Economy
Author: Eva Maria Stadler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2024-04-22
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3111371344

Opposing a regime of accumulation and abstraction This anthology explores the tension between abstraction and economics from the perspectives of art, art theory, art history, as well as law, sociology, philosophy, and economics. It poses questions about the current challenges of a global capitalist economy with claims to expansive growth in relation to aesthetics, technology, and democracy. The relationship between abstraction and economics is discussed in a series of theoretical and artistic contributions. The main focus is on the role of art in mediating between the concrete and the abstract, on formalist approaches to art theory, and on the social and economic cues that help us trace the aesthetic regime of capitalism. Ultimately, this book asks, “how can artistic-aesthetic practices counteract the regime of accumulation and abstraction?” The visual arts in a socioeconomic context Reflecting on the relationship between abstraction and economics from capitalist-critical, decolonial, ecological, and queer-feminist perspectives Contributions by Brenna Bhandar, Christina von Braun, Sabeth Buchmann, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Sven Lütticken, R. H. Quaytman, Marina Vishmidt, and others Look inside

From Knowledge Abstraction to Management

From Knowledge Abstraction to Management
Author: Aparajita Suman
Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1780633696

The increasing volume of information in the contemporary world entails demand for efficient knowledge management (KM) systems; a logical method of information organization that will allow proper semantic querying to identify things that match meaning in natural language. On this concept, the role of an information manager goes beyond implementing a search and clustering system, to the ability to map and logically present the subject domain and related cross domains. From Knowledge Abstraction to Management answers this need by analysing ontology tools and techniques, helping the reader develop a conceptual framework from the digital library perspective. Beginning with the concept of knowledge abstraction, before discussing the Solecistic versus the Semantic Web, the book goes on to consider knowledge organisation, the development of conceptual frameworks, untying conceptual tangles, and the concept of faceted knowledge representation. - Offers a semantic solution to knowledge and information managers - Demonstrates the development of a system for semantic knowledge organization and retrieval - Relevant to those without much coding experience

Thick Concepts

Thick Concepts
Author: Simon Kirchin
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2013-04-25
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0199672342

An international team of experts explores the distinction between 'thin' concepts (general, evaluative terms like 'good' and 'bad') and 'thick' concepts (more specific concepts, such as 'brave', or 'rude'). Their essays touch on key debates in metaethics about the evaluative and normative, and raise fascinating questions about how language works.

Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases III

Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases III
Author: Setsuo Ohsuga
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 726
Release: 1992
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN: 9789051990737

Papers direct the focus of interest to the development and use of conceptual models in information systems of various kinds and aim at improving awareness about general or specific problems and solutions in conceptual modelling.