Understanding Pictures (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198240976)

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.

Author: Dominic Lopes,D. Lopes
ISBN-10: 019824097X
ISBN-13: 9780198240976
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 07/25/1996
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.63w x 0.83d