Understanding Pictures by Lopes, Dominic;

Sorozatcím: Oxford Philosophical Monographs;

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Kiadó Clarendon Press
Megjelenés dátuma 1996. március 28.

ISBN 9780198240976
Kötéstípus Keménykötés
Terjedelem248 oldal
Méret 224x145x21 mm
Súly 450 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk illustrations throughout

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Rövid leírás:

This book examines the kinds of visual and cultural skills viewers needs to have to understand pictures. It 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, the book contrasts pictorial meaning with literary meaning and explains how pictures are capable of conveying information other media cannot.

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Hosszú leírás:

There is not one but 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.

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. If this book finally leads to a series of puzzles about depiction that its terms of composition do not quite work out, the book has by that point produced such an excellent advance in the terms according to which the topic may be discussed as to have amply justified its aim of "theory-building."