Understanding pictures
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Understanding pictures
Clarendon Press : Oxford University Press, 2004
- : pbk
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"First published 1996. First published in paperback 2004"--T.p. verso
Originally presented as the auther's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 1992
Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-234) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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.
Table of Contents
- I PICTURES AS PERCEPTUAL
- II PICTURES AS SYMBOLS
- III ASPECT RECOGNITION
- IV APPLICATIONS
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