Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 360 g
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 360 g
Reihe: Oxford Philosophical Monographs
ISBN: 978-0-19-927203-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford
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.
