There are not one but many ways to picture the worldAustralian
'x-ray' pictures, cubist collages, Amerindian split-style figures,
and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to
different features of what they represent. The premise of
Understanding Pictures is that this diversity is the central fact
with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon. Lopes
argues that identifying pictures' subjects is akin to recognizing
objects whose appearances have changed over the time. He develops a
scheme for categorizing the different ways pictures represent - the
different kinds of meaning they have - and he contends that
depiction's epistemic value lies in its representational diversity.
He also offers a novel account of the phenomenology of pictorial
experience, comparing pictures to visual prostheses like mirrors
and binoculars. The book concludes with a discussion of works of
art which have made pictorial meaning their theme, demonstrating
the importance of the issues this book raises for understanding the
aesthetics of pictures.
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