Less obvious than the of-ness of a work of art, but often more intriguing, is what the work of art is about… Sometimes the about-ness of a work of art is relatively clear as in Georg Pencz’s Allegory of Justice… This image is of a naked woman holding a sword and scales, but the title tells us that the image is an allegorical figure representing justice or, in other words, that the image is about the abstract concept “justice.” In Goya’s drawing Contemptuous of the Insults… the aboutness is slightly less obvious, but it is still clear that this work of art has some meaning beyond simply what it is of. Indeed a description of what it is of -- a man, perhaps Goya himself, gesturing toward two dwarfs wearing uniforms -- is not really sufficient to make sense of this image ; it symbolizes something else, it is about something else ; the relationship between Spain and France at the beginning of the nineteenth century or, more specifically, Goya’s personal attitude toward the French occupation of Spain. (Page 4)