Understanding Pictures
1st Edition
Published on 28. March 1996
249 pages
978-0-19-154399-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Introduction
- PART ONE: PICTURES AS PERCEPTUAL
- 1 Representation and Resemblance
- 2 Depiction and Vision
- PART TWO: PICTURES AS SYMBOLS
- 3 Goodman's Symbol Theory
- 4 Symbols and Substitutes
- 5 Pictorial Reference
- PART THREE: ASPECT RECOGNITION
- 6 Pictorial Content
- 7 Pictorial Recognition
- 8 Pictorial Meaning
- 9 Pictorial Experience
- PART FOUR: APPLICATIONS
- 10 Fictive Pictures
- 11 Picturing Pictures
- BIBLOGRAPHY
- PICTURE CREDITS
- INDEX
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
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