What is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction

Author:   M. Newall
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
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9781349325191


Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Format:   Paperback
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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.

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Author:   M. Newall
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2011
Weight:   0.315kg
ISBN:  

9781349325191


ISBN 10:   1349325198
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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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MICHAEL NEWALL is Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, UK. He is winner of the 2009 John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics.

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