What is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction

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Palgrave Macmillan UK, Dec 21, 2010 - Art - 234 pages
Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts.

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What is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction
M. Newall
Limited preview - 2016
What is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction
M. Newall
No preview available - 2011

About the author (2010)

MICHAEL NEWALL is Lecturer in History & Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, UK. He is winner of the 2009 John Fisher Memorial Prize in Aesthetics.

Bibliographic information

TitleWhat is a Picture?: Depiction, Realism, Abstraction
AuthorM. Newall
Editionillustrated
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan UK, 2010
ISBN0230276555, 9780230276550
Length234 pages
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Art / Criticism & Theory
Art / General
Art / Techniques / General
Philosophy / Aesthetics
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