Real Likenesses
Author | : Michael Morris |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2020-05-14 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780198861751 |
ISBN-13 | : 0198861753 |
Rating | : 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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 current 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.