Understanding Pictures / Edition 1

Understanding Pictures / Edition 1

by Dominic Lopes
ISBN-10:
019824097X
ISBN-13:
9780198240976
Pub. Date:
07/25/1996
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
019824097X
ISBN-13:
9780198240976
Pub. Date:
07/25/1996
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Understanding Pictures / Edition 1

Understanding Pictures / Edition 1

by Dominic Lopes

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Overview

There is not one but many ways to picture the world—Australian "x-ray" pictures, cubish collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent. Understanding Pictures argues that this diversity is the central fact with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon. Lopes advances the theory 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 argues that 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198240976
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 07/25/1996
Series: Oxford Philosophical Monographs
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 8.74(w) x 5.63(h) x 0.83(d)
Lexile: 1430L (what's this?)
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