1. Kendall Lewis Walton was born on 1939 and is an American philosopher, the Emeritus Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.
11 Facts About Kendall Walton
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Kendall Walton has developed an account of photography as transparent, defending the idea that we see through photographs, much as we see through telescopes or mirrors, and written extensively on pictorial representation, fiction and the emotions, the ontological status of fictional entities, the aesthetics of music, metaphor, and aesthetic value.
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Kendall Walton joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1965, and became Charles L Stevenson Collegiate Professor in 1999.
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Kendall Walton was elected as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998, and received an honorary doctorate from the University of Nottingham in 2005.
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Kendall Walton was president of the American Society for Aesthetics from 2003 to 2005.
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Kendall Walton has been working on this philosophical theory since 1973, and it is expounded in his 1990 magnum opus Mimesis as Make -Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts.
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Kendall Walton identifies two kinds of such worlds: the game world of each participant and the work world, which can be thought of as containing only such content as is true in any well-formed game world.
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Kendall Walton identifies a pretence construal whereby a person pretends to describe the real world, when actually describing a fictional world.
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In later papers, Kendall Walton has expanded his theory to recognize a distinction between content oriented make-believe, which describes a participant's relationship to the fictional worlds of novels, films, paintings etc.
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Kendall Walton has developed several additional philosophical theories pertaining to art.
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Kendall Walton has developed the groundwork for a theory of aesthetic value in which aesthetic pleasure is understood as being partly constituted by the admiration a participant feels for an artwork, and suggested that styles in art can be understood by comparison to the adjective qualities we attach to the actions that artists apparently took in making a work of art.