Kendall Lewis Walton, born in 1939, is an American philosopher and Emeritus Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan. He developed an influential make-believe theory of artistic representation, holding that representational art functions like props in imaginative games, created the transparency thesis of photography, and has contributed significantly to aesthetics, ontology and philosophy of mind.
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Defining MomentDeveloped the make-believe theory of representational art from 1973 onward, culminating in his 1990 book Mimesis as Make-Believe. 1 Notable PublicationMimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts (1990) 1 Office HeldCharles L. Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design, University of Michigan, now emeritus; joined the faculty in 1965 and became Stevenson Professor in 1999 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Kendall Walton (Wikipedia)
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1939
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Walton has been working on this philosophical theory since 1973
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Mimesis as Make-Believe: On the Foundations of the Representational Arts
Career section, University of Michigan timeline passage
He joined the University of Michigan faculty in 1965, and became Charles L. Stevenson Collegiate Professor in 1999.
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Kendall Lewis Walton (born 1939) is an American philosopher, the Emeritus Charles Stevenson Collegiate Professor of Philosophy and Professor of Art and Design at the University of Michigan.
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