Real Likenesses Representation in Paintings, Photographs, and Novels
Innbundet /
2020
/ Engelsk
Product details
ISBN
9780198861751
Published
2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
483 gr
Height
242 mm
Width
164 mm
Thickness
19 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
240
Author
Biographical note
Michael Morris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He has written on the philosophy of language, mind, metaphysics, and art, and has analysed the work of both Plato and Wittgenstein. He is the author of The Good and the True (Oxford, 1992), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge, 2007), and Wittgenstein and the Tractatus (Routledge, 2008).
Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art, which counters currently dominant theories that make attention to the former inevitably a distraction from attending to the latter. Through close analysis of paintings, photographs, and novels, Michael Morris proposes a new understanding of the real likenesses we encounter in representational art; what they are, how they are made present to us, and how they are created. The result is an intuitive way of thinking about how these art forms work.
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Real Likenesses presents a radical new approach to the philosophy of artistic representation. Through a close analysis of paintings, photographs, and novels it reconsiders the relationship between medium and content, and proposes a new understanding of the 'real likenesses' that we encounter in representational art.
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Introduction
1: The Paradox of Painting
2: Painted Things
3: Photography and the Real World
4: Transparency and Distraction in Photographs
5: Paradox and Distraction in Novels
6: Real Characters
Postscript
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Provides a new, critical understanding of what makes representational art intelligible
Focuses on the relationship between medium, content, and reception
Bridges philosophical and artistic concerns in representing reality through art
Provides a novel characterisation of dominant philosophical theories that shape the discussion of creation
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Michael Morris is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex. He has written on the philosophy of language, mind, metaphysics, and art, and has analysed the work of both Plato and Wittgenstein. He is the author of The Good and the True (Oxford, 1992), An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (Cambridge, 2007), and Wittgenstein and the Tractatus (Routledge, 2008).
Read more
Provides a new, critical understanding of what makes representational art intelligible
Focuses on the relationship between medium, content, and reception
Bridges philosophical and artistic concerns in representing reality through art
Provides a novel characterisation of dominant philosophical theories that shape the discussion of creation
Read more
Product details
ISBN
9780198861751
Published
2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Weight
483 gr
Height
242 mm
Width
164 mm
Thickness
19 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
240
Author