What Is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction

ISBN-13: 9780230276550 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 234 str.

Michael Newall

Opis

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts.

Spis treści

List of figures Acknowledgements Introduction Convention Seeing and the Experience of Pictures  A Theory of Depiction Resemblance Transparency and Resemblance Realism Varieties of Realism Abstraction Notes Index

O autorze

MICHAEL NEWALL is Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, UK. He is winner of the 2009 John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics.