Real Likenesses - Representation in Paintings, Photographs, and Novels

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.

List of contents

• 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

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Morris, Michael (Professor of Philosophy Morris
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.05.2020
• EAN: 9780198861751
• ISBN: 978-0-19-886175-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Language, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Art forms, The Arts: art forms