Author : Dominic Lopes
Release : 2004
Genre : Art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 037/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding Pictures by : Dominic Lopes
Download or read book Understanding Pictures written by Dominic Lopes. This book was released on 2004. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is not one but many ways to picture the world--Australian "x-ray" pictures, cubish collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent. Understanding Pictures argues that this diversity is the central fact with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon. Lopes advances the theory 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 argues that 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.