Understanding Pictures
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 27 May 2004
- ISBN 9780199272037
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 215x138x14 mm
- Weight 364 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones and lime drawings 0
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Short description:
Dominic Lopes examines the kinds of visual and cultural skills viewers needs to have to understand pictures. He addresses a long-standing puzzle about pictures: how can they reflect their cultural and historical contexts and yet be understood outside those contexts? In answering this question, his book contrasts pictorial meaning with literary meaning and explains how pictures are capable of conveying information other media cannot.
MoreLong 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.
Review from previous edition This is among the most subtle and carefully developed books on the topic of depiction to have hit the philosophical world since the great triumvirate of texts by Ernst Gombrich, Nelson Goodman, and Richard Wollheim defined the subject for analytical audiences.
Table of Contents:
I Pictures as Perceptual
Representation and Resemblance
Depiction and Vision
II Pictures as Symbols
Goodman's Symbol Theory
Symbols and Substitutes
Pictorial Reference
III Aspect Recognition
Pictorial Content
Pictorial Recognition
Pictorial Meaning
Pictorial Experience
IV Applications
Fictive Pictures
Picturing Pictures
Bibliography
Picture Credits
Index
