Art and Abstract Objects

List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Art, Metaphysics, and The Paradox of Standards; GENERAL ONTOLOGICAL ISSUES; 1. Must Ontological Pragmatism Be Self-Defeating?; 2. Indication, Abstraction, and Individuation; 3. Destroying Artworks; INFORMATIVE COMPARISONS; 4. Art, Open-Endedness, and Indefinite Extensibility; 5. Historical Individuals Like Anas platyrhynchos and 'Classical Gas'; 6. Repeatable Artwork Sentences and Generics; ARGUMENTS AGAINST AND ALTERNATIVES TO; 7. Against Repeatable Artworks; 8. How to be a Nominalist and a Fictional Realist; 9. Platonism vs. Nominalism in Contemporary Musical Ontology; ABSTRACTA ACROSS THE ARTS; 10. Reflections on the Metaphysics of Sculpture; 11. Installation Art and Performance: A Shared Ontology; 12. What Type of 'Type' is a Film?; 13. Musical Works: A Mash-Up; Index