| The exhibition notes tell us that he exploited the tension between abstract patterns and representationalism. |
| The earliest representation of the Buddha in the exhibition is a breathtakingly beautiful import from Gandhara with its echo of Hellenistic representationalism. |
| Largely avoiding personal handwriting and sensuous colours in favour of clear forms and formulations, Artschwager makes no real distinction between abstraction and representationalism. |
| The second reason why pragmatists have dismissed representationalism has to do with concerns in the theory of knowledge. |
| And that is what is accomplished by the specifically representationalist part of strong representationalism does, not by the functionalist part. |
| The subject of representationalism therefore comes to appear as naturally given, just as, in this view, technology is also a given. |
