عنوان

Understanding pictures /

(Number (ISBN

019824097X

(Number (ISBN

0199272034

(Number (ISBN

9780198240976

(Number (ISBN

9780199272037

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b710232

Title Proper

Understanding pictures /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Dominic Lopes.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Oxford University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

1996.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

240 pages :

Other Physical Details

illustrations ;

Dimensions

22 cm

Series Title

Oxford philosophical monographs

Text of Note

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 1992, originally presented under the title: Pictures as perceptual symbols.

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-234) and index.

Text of Note

Introduction -- Part I. Pictures as perceptual. 1. Representation and Resemblance -- 2. Depiction and Vision -- Part II. Pictures as symbols. 3. Goodman's Symbol Theory -- 4. Symbols and Substitutes -- 5. Pictorial Reference ---Part III. Aspect recognition. 6. Pictorial Content -- 7. Pictorial Recognition -- 8. Pictorial Meaning -- 9. Pictorial Experience -- Part IV. Applications. 10. Fictive Pictures -- 11. Picturing Pictures.

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Text of Note

There are not one but many ways to picture the worldAustralian '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 the 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.

Ästhetik

Aesthetics.

Pictures.

20.06 philosophy of art.

Aesthetics.

Afbeeldingen (algemeen)

Ästhetik.

Bild

Esthetica.

Kunst

Kunstwissenschaft

Philosophie

Pictures.

Rezeptionsforschung

Number

709

Number

750.01

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Edition

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Book number

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System Code

Lopes, Dominic.

Date of Transaction

20201208005952.0

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[Book]

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