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BL
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955862
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b710232
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| Main Entry
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Lopes, Dominic.
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| Title & Author
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Understanding pictures /\ Dominic Lopes.
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| Publication Statement
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Oxford :: Clarendon Press ;Oxford ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 1996.
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| Series Statement
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Oxford philosophical monographs
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240 pages :: illustrations ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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019824097X
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: 0199272034
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: 9780198240976
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: 9780199272037
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| Notes
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Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Oxford University, 1992, originally presented under the title: Pictures as perceptual symbols.
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-234) and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction -- Part I. Pictures as perceptual. 1. Representation and Resemblance -- 2. Depiction and Vision -- Part II. Pictures as symbols. 3. Goodman's Symbol Theory -- 4. Symbols and Substitutes -- 5. Pictorial Reference ---Part III. Aspect recognition. 6. Pictorial Content -- 7. Pictorial Recognition -- 8. Pictorial Meaning -- 9. Pictorial Experience -- Part IV. Applications. 10. Fictive Pictures -- 11. Picturing Pictures.
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| Abstract
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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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Aesthetics.
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Pictures.
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20.06 philosophy of art.
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Aesthetics.
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Bild
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Kunst
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Kunstwissenschaft
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Philosophie
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Pictures.
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Rezeptionsforschung
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Ästhetik.
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Afbeeldingen (algemeen)
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Esthetica.
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Ästhetik
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| Dewey Classification
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701/.17
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| LC Classification
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BH39.L596 1996
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20.06bcl
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5,1ssgn
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CC 6900rvk
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