{"product_id":"understanding-pictures","title":"Understanding Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are many ways to picture the world - Australian `x-ray' pictures, cubist collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent.  The premise of Understanding Pictures is that this diversity is the central fact with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon.Lopes argues that identifying pictures' subjects is akin to recognizing\n\u003cbr\u003eobjects whose appearances have changed over time.  He develops a schema for categorizing the different ways pictures represent--the different kinds of meaning they have--and he contends that depiction's epistemic\n\u003cbr\u003evalue lies in its representational diversity.  He also offers a novel account of the phenomenology of pictorial experience, comparing pictures to visual prostheses like mirrors and binoculars.The book concludes with a discussion of works of art which have made pictorial meaning their theme, demonstrating the importance of the issues this book raises for understanding the aesthetics of pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44061888938222,"sku":"9780199272037","price":98.61,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780199272037.jpg?v=1706255650","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/understanding-pictures","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}