Background
Richard Wollheim was born on May 5, 1923, in London, United Kingdom. He was a son of Eric and Constance Wollheim.
1972
Richard Wollheim
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Balliol College where Richard Wollheim received a Master of Arts degree.
(This intellectual biography of Freud presents a fresh and...)
This intellectual biography of Freud presents a fresh and thorough analysis of the whole body of his writings. Each of these is studied in its context, and their chronology is shown to be of great importance. The author demonstrates how Freud's exploratory and sometimes hesitant efforts to explain all that he discovered of mental abnormality are to be properly understood only in light of his quest for a general theory of the mind. This reissue contains a new Preface by Professor Wollheim that takes account of recent critical work on Freud.
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1971
(In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Rich...)
In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Richard Wollheim offers an original approach to the philosophical understanding of a person. Countering prevailing theories on the nature of persons, Wollheim submits an account of the mind dynamically conceived and proposes that we take as fundamental the process of living as a person. To illuminate this process, the author draws on psychoanalysis and literature, in particular the case studies of Freud and the writings of Proust.
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1984
(In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mel...)
In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mellon Lectures at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., philosopher Richard Wollheim transcended the boundaries and habits of both philosophy and art history to produce a large, encompassing vision of viewing art. Wollheim had three great passions – philosophy, psychology, art – and his work attempted to unify them into a theory of the experience of art. He believed that unlocking the meaning of a painting involved retrieving, almost reenacting, the creative activity that produced it.
https://www.amazon.com/Painting-as-Art-Richard-Wollheim/dp/0691018928/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Painting+as+an+art+Richard+Wollheim&qid=1577368255&s=books&sr=1-1
1987
(The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in th...)
The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in the moral life and psychoanalysis, has always been at the core of Richard Wollheim’s celebrated work. This book brings together Wollheim’s broad and abiding concerns to illuminate human thought at its furthest reaches of introspection and expression. Interweaving philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics, these essays reveal the critical connections between ideas and disciplines too often regarded as separate and distinct.
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1993
(Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into servic...)
Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into service the insights of literature and of psychoanalysis, as well as of philosophy, in this rich and thought-provoking account of the emotions. Starting from the premise that emotions form a distinct psychological category, Wollheim argues that they are – like beliefs and desires – dispositions or underlying forces in the mind that erupt from time to time into the stream of consciousness. However, to assimilate emotions to beliefs or to desires or to some combination of the two is quite wrong. Emotions are attitudes or orientations to the world, says the author, and in this regard, they are naturally associated with the imagination.
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1999
(Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealt...)
Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealthy suburbs during the 1920s and 1930s, yet his was a childhood more interesting than most. He had an impresario father and a “Gaiety Girl” mother; together they attracted important guests (Diaghilev, Kurt Weill, Serge Lifar) to the grand houses and hotels that punctuated the landscape of Wollheim's early years. Germs is his account of that time, of the years he spent adoring his charming but distant father; of his regret for loathing his beautiful, mindless mother. Told in prose that with hypnotic ease moves from deadpan comedy to poignant loneliness, Germs is already a classic work of memoir.
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2004
Richard Wollheim was born on May 5, 1923, in London, United Kingdom. He was a son of Eric and Constance Wollheim.
Richard Wollheim studied at Westminster School. In 1941, he entered Balliol College but his studies were interrupted by World War II. After serving in the British Army Wollheim returned to Balliol College where he received a Master of Arts degree in 1948.
Richard Wollheim started his career as an assistant lecturer at the University College London in 1949. In 1951, he was appointed a lecturer and in 1960 he became a reader in Philosophy. In 1963, Wollheim took up a post of Grote Professor of Mind and Logic at the University College London. He held this post until 1982 when he moved to the United States. Wollheim became a professor of Philosophy at Columbia University in 1982 and in 1985 he became Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley. He retired from this post in 2002.
Wollheim also served as a professor of Philosophy and the Humanities at the University of California in Davis from 1989 to 1996. He was a visiting professor at Harvard University, University of Minnesota and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York.
Richard Wollheim published his first book about F. H. Bradley in 1959. Later he wrote such books as Art and its Objects, The Mind and Its Depths and On the Emotions. Wollheim's lectures that he delivered at Harvard were published as The Thread Of Life. He also delivered lectures at the National Gallery of Art that were published as Painting as an Art. Wollheim's last book Germs: A Memoir of Childhood was published posthumously in 2004.
(Leading philosopher Richard Wollheim recruits into servic...)
1999(The mind as it is manifested in philosophy and art, in th...)
1993(Richard Wollheim grew up lonely and sad in London's wealt...)
2004(In this distinguished book, first published in 1984, Rich...)
1984(In Painting as an Art, which began as the 1984 Andrew Mel...)
1987(This intellectual biography of Freud presents a fresh and...)
1971Richard Wollheim was raised as a Christian, though he was entirely indifferent to religious ideas.
Richard Wollheim gained most renown for his theories regarding the interpretation of art and was also noted for coining the term "Minimalism." He maintained that art could best be viewed by "seeing in" to every aspect of the piece, including trying to interpret how the art was originally conceived and created and within what type of environment and context. Wollheim believed that people should relate to art as they relate to one another.
In his works, Wollheim argued that art is a form of life, artistic activity and appreciation requiring the existence of practices and institutions. He said that the aim of artists is to endow their work with a meaning determined by the intentions that guide their activity.
Quotations:
"I evolved a way of looking at paintings which were massively time-consuming and deeply rewarding. For I came to recognize that it often took the first hour or so in front of a painting for stray associations or motivated misperceptions to settle down, and it was only then, with the same amount of time or more to spend looking at it, that the picture could be relied upon to disclose itself as it was. I noticed that I became an object of suspicion to passers-by, and so did the picture that I was looking at."
"Learning appears as a way of staying young, perhaps of staying alive, and also as a way of growing up, perhaps facing death."
"From the time we are born until we die, our purpose is to learn, to grow, and to change. Most learning does not occur in school and we don't stop learning once we graduate. Cultivate a learning attitude. Unfortunately, many people do not learn from their mistakes. They are not willing to change and grow. To be a great artist or writer, you must be constantly learning about the world in which we inhabit."
"We experience the world through our senses – hearing, seeing, tasting, touching and smelling. And what we experience teaches us much if we are paying attention and alert to the possibilities. Did you smell the wind today? Did you hear the approaching storm? Do you taste the rain on your face?"
"Life-long learning is a powerful habit to develop. Learning something new keeps us in touch with our youth and helps us to stay active and alive. What have you learned in the last week? Who has taught you something new about yourself or your art?"
Richard Wollheim was an honorary affiliate of the British Psychoanalytical Society and an honorary member of the San Francisco Psychoanalytical Institute. He also was president of the Aristotelian Society, the British Society for Aesthetics and the Pacific division of the American Philosophical Association.
Richard Wollheim was a profoundly engaging man, an animated conversationalist and a vivid raconteur.
Richard Wollheim married Anne Powell in 1950. The marriage produced two sons. In 1967, Richard and Anne divorced. Later Richard Wollheim married Mary Day Lanier with whom he had a daughter.