Understanding Pictures
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
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"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 Understa...
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- ISBN13 9780198240976
- ISBN10 019824097X
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Understanding Pictures
Editorial OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
"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 Understa...
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
"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 scheme 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.