What is a Picture? [electronic resource] : Depiction, Realism, Abstraction /
Newall, M.author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: -- 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.
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.
Arts.
Philosophy.
Aesthetics.
Fine arts.
Arts.
Philosophy, general.
Aesthetics.
Fine Arts.