What is a Picture? : Depiction, Realism, Abstraction
Title:
What is a Picture? : Depiction, Realism, Abstraction
Author:
Newall, Michael, 1973- author.
ISBN:
9780230276550
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Publication Information:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Physical Description:
viii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- Convention -- Seeing and the Experience of Pictures -- A Theory of Depiction -- Resemblance -- Transparency and Resemblance -- Realism -- Varieties of Realism -- Abstraction.
Abstract:
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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