Dominic Lopes

Understanding Pictures (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

There is not one but 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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 1996
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780191543999
• Artikelnr.: 56876333

Inhaltsangabe

I Pictures as Perceptual
1: Representation and Resemblance
2: Depiction and Vision
II Pictures as Symbols
3: Goodman's Symbol Theory
4: Symbols and Substitutes
5: Pictorial Reference
III Aspect Recognition
6: Pictorial Content
7: Pictorial Recognition
8: Pictorial Meaning
9: Pictorial Experience
IV Applications
10: Fictive Pictures
11: Picturing Pictures
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index