What is a picture? : depiction, realism, abstraction / Michael Newall.
What is a picture? : depiction, realism, abstraction / Michael Newall.
What is a picture? : depiction, realism, abstraction / Michael Newall.
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
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N153.7/66
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 234 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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.
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Publisher
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2011.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c2011.
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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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What is a picture? : depiction, realism, abstraction / Michael Newall.
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Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N153.7/66
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74VvDV446m6X
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvDV446m6X
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ISBN
0230276555 (hbk.)
9780230276550 (hbk.)
DDC
153.7
MMS ID
991004940969702626
