Picture Theory: Essays On Verbal And Visual Representation

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Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and th... Traditional art is based on conventions of resemblance between the work and that which it is a representation of . Abstract art in contrast either adopts alternative modes of visual representation or reconfigures mimetic convention. This book explores... more

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in rela... Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual the painted image a world picture... more

Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in rela... Seeing Differently offers a history and theory of ideas about identity in relation to visual arts discourses and practices in Euro-American culture from early modern beliefs that art is an expression of an individual the painted image a world picture... more

Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art art history and percept... Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art art history and perceptual psychology this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts. more

Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred... Off the Pedestal is the first book to explore the radical change that occurred in the representation of women immediately after the Civil War. Three critical essays draw on the visual culture of the period to show how postbellum social changes in the... more