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).
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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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ISBN
9780198861751
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
483 gr
Høyde
242 mm
Bredde
164 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
240

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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).