{"product_id":"understanding-pictures-9780199272037","title":"Understanding Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dominic Lopes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: OUP Oxford\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is not one but many ways to picture the world--Australian \"x-ray\" pictures, cubish collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent. \u003cem\u003eUnderstanding Pictures\u003c\/em\u003e argues that this diversity is the central fact with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon. Lopes advances the theory that identifying pictures' subjects is akin to recognizing objects whose appearances have changed over time. He develops a schema for categorizing the different \u003cem\u003eways\u003c\/em\u003e pictures represent--the different kinds of meaning they have--and argues that that depiction's epistemic value 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OUP Oxford","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47588251533463,"sku":"9780199272037","price":5870.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780199272037.webp?v=1774967542","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/understanding-pictures-9780199272037","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}