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Understanding Pictures.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Understanding Pictures./
Author:	Lopes, Dominic.
Description:	1 online resource (249 pages)
Subject:	Pictures. -
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ISBN:	9781280755187

Understanding Pictures.
Lopes, Dominic.

Understanding Pictures. - 1 online resource (249 pages) - Oxford Philosophical Monographs. - Oxford Philosophical Monographs.

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.

ISBN: 9781280755187Subjects--Topical Terms:

570738
Pictures.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

554714
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: BH39.L596

Dewey Class. No.: 701.17

Understanding Pictures.
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