Four Arts of Photography - An Essay in Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Dominic McIver Lopes is Distinguished University Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is the author of Understanding Pictures (1996) and Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures (2005), as well as books on computer art and the nature of art. His first camera was a Kodak Instamatic 124, which he used to document his family's migration from Scotland to Canada. Klappentext Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century.* Re-examines the history of art photography through four major photographic movements and with case studies of representative images* Employs a top-down, theory to case approach, as well as a bottom-up, case to theory approach* Advances a new theory regarding the nature of photography that is grounded in technology but doesn't place it in opposition to painting* Includes commentaries by two leading philosophers of photography, Diarmuid Costello and Cynthia A. Freeland Zusammenfassung Four Arts of Photography explores the history of photography through the lens of philosophy and proposes a new scholarly understanding of the art form for the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations xi Notes on Author and Contributors xii Preface xiii Wonderment to Puzzlement 1 How to Do Things with Theory 17 To Possess Other Eyes: The First Art 36 Thinking Through Photographs: The Second Art 48 A New Theory of Photography 65 Lyricism: The Third Art 87 The Knowing Eye 105 Abstraction: The Fourth Art 114 Crosscurrents and Boundary Conditions 125 Appendix: the Skeptic's Argument 133 Comments Doing Justice to the Art in Photography 135 Diarmuid Costello Four Thoughts about Four Arts of Photography 147 Cynthia A. Freeland Notes 157 Index 174 ...

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• Authors: Dm Lopes, Dominic Mcive Lopes, Dominic McIver Lopes, Dominic Mciver (University of British Colum Lopes, Dominic McIver (University of British Columbia Lopes, Lopes Dominic McIver
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2016
• EAN: 9781119053170
• ISBN: 978-1-119-05317-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: New Directions in Aesthetics; New Directions in Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Fotografie, Ästhetik, Philosophie, Kunstphilosophie, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Art & Applied Arts, Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst, Geschichte u. Theorie der Fotografie, Photography History & Theory, Philosophy of Art, Philosophie der Kunst