Real likenesses : representation in paintings, photographs, and novels / Michael Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Michael, 1949- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arts--Philosophy.

Arts.

Resemblance (Philosophy).

Representation (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 228 pages).

Other Title:

Representation in paintings, photographs, and novels

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England ; New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2020]

Summary:

This book offers a new approach to artistic representation, worked out in detail for the cases of paintings, photographs, and novels. It presents a paradox in the case of each of the three art forms, and argues for a thesis (the Non-Distraction Thesis) about the relation between medium and content. It then argues that the dominant theories of representation in the three art forms are incompatible with that thesis. Fresh light is thereby cast on familiar topics: the supposed phenomenon of 'twofoldedness', in the case of paintings; the alleged 'transparency' of photographs; the 'paradox of fiction', in the case of novels. Having raised problems for existing theories in these domains, the book proposes for each art form a novel way of understanding the relation between the medium and the content.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-260631-X

0-19-189436-2

0-19-260630-1