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9780230276550

What is a Picture? Depiction, Realism, Abstraction

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    9780230276550

  • ISBN10:

    0230276555

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2011-02-15
  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Michael Newall is Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, UK. He is winner of the 2009 John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics.

Table of Contents

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

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