Understanding Pictures Paperback / softback
by Dominic (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Indiana Univer Lopes
Part of the Oxford Philosophical Monographs series
Paperback / softback
Description
There are many ways to picture the world - Australian `x-ray' pictures, cubist collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent.
The premise of Understanding Pictures is that this diversity is the central fact with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon. Lopes argues that identifying pictures' subjects is akin to recognizing objects whose appearances have changed over time.
He develops a schema for categorizing the different ways pictures represent--the different kinds of meaning they have--and he contends that depiction's epistemic value lies in its representational diversity.
He also offers a novel account of the phenomenology of pictorial experience, comparing pictures to visual prostheses like mirrors and binoculars. The book concludes with a discussion of works of art which have made pictorial meaning their theme, demonstrating the importance of the issues this book raises for understanding the aesthetics of pictures.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, numerous halftones and lime drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:27/05/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199272037
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages, numerous halftones and lime drawings
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:27/05/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199272037
