Jason Gaiger is a Lecturer at the Open University and has published widely in the field of aesthetics and art history. He is the editor of Frameworks for Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2003) and is translator and editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Sculpture (Chicago University Press, 2003). He is also co-editor, with Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, of Art in Theory: 1648-1815 (Blackwell, 2000) and Art in Theory: 1815-1900 (Blackwell, 1998).

"This book shines a much needed clear, intelligent light on the central questions of the meaning and value of painting, proving that philosophy and art can know and illuminate one another." - John Armstrong, Melbourne University, Australia

• 1. Painting and Philosophy; 2. A Window onto the World; 3. Surface and Subject; 4. Resemblance and Denotation; 5. The Logic of Depiction; 6. Formalism and its Limits; 7. Painting and Historical Explanation; 8. Contemporary Challenges; Bibliography; Index.

Jason Gaiger is a Lecturer at the Open University and has published widely in the field of aesthetics and art history. He is the editor of Frameworks for Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2003) and is translator and editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Sculpture (Chicago University Press, 2003). He is also co-editor, with Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, of Art in Theory: 1648-1815 (Blackwell, 2000) and Art in Theory: 1815-1900 (Blackwell, 1998).

"This book shines a much needed clear, intelligent light on the central questions of the meaning and value of painting, proving that philosophy and art can know and illuminate one another." - John Armstrong, Melbourne University, Australia

• 1. Painting and Philosophy; 2. A Window onto the World; 3. Surface and Subject; 4. Resemblance and Denotation; 5. The Logic of Depiction; 6. Formalism and its Limits; 7. Painting and Historical Explanation; 8. Contemporary Challenges; Bibliography; Index.

Jason Gaiger is a Lecturer at the Open University and has published widely in the field of aesthetics and art history. He is the editor of Frameworks for Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2003) and is translator and editor of Johann Gottfried Herder's Sculpture (Chicago University Press, 2003). He is also co-editor, with Charles Harrison and Paul Wood, of Art in Theory: 1648-1815 (Blackwell, 2000) and Art in Theory: 1815-1900 (Blackwell, 1998).

"This book shines a much needed clear, intelligent light on the central questions of the meaning and value of painting, proving that philosophy and art can know and illuminate one another." - John Armstrong, Melbourne University, Australia

• 1. Painting and Philosophy; 2. A Window onto the World; 3. Surface and Subject; 4. Resemblance and Denotation; 5. The Logic of Depiction; 6. Formalism and its Limits; 7. Painting and Historical Explanation; 8. Contemporary Challenges; Bibliography; Index.