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What is a Picture? : Depiction, Realism, Abstraction / Michael Newall.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newall, Michael, 1973- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
- 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"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Convention
- Seeing and the Experience of Pictures
- A Theory of Depiction
- Resemblance
- Transparency and Resemblance
- Realism
- Varieties of Realism
- Abstraction.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-228) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780230276550
- 0230276555
- OCLC:
- 695390068
- Online:
- Cover image
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