What is a picture?
Subtitle: depiction, realism, abstraction
By: Michael Newall
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Basingstoke [etc.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780230276550
Subjects: Art; Philosophy; A sthetik; Bildwissenschaft; Picture interpretation
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.