Real likenesses : representation in paintings, photographs, and novels / Michael Morris.
2020
NX650.H74
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Title
Real likenesses : representation in paintings, photographs, and novels / Michael Morris.
ISBN
9780191894367 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (240 pages).
Call Number
NX650.H74
Dewey Decimal Classification
700.45
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.
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on June 2, 2020).
Series
Oxford scholarship online.
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Print version: 9780198861751
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