Real likenesses : representation in paintings, photographs, and novels /
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....
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford :
Oxford University Press,
2020.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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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| Item Description: | Also issued in print: 2020. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191894367 0191894362 |