Sight and sensibility
Subtitle: evaluating pictures
By: Dominic McIver Lopes.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
Subjects: Judgment (Aesthetics); Pictures.
Description: "Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts the puzzle of how the value of seeing something in a picture can exceed the value of seeing it face to face - his solution pinpoints how seeing-in is like and unlike ordinary seeing. Moreover, since part of what we see in pictures is emotional expressions, his book also develops a theory of expression especially tailored to pictures."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-204) and index.
Table of contents: title: The puzzle of mimesis; title: The 'air' of pictures; title: Good looking; title: Drawing lessons; title: Moral vision.