Real Likenesses: Representation in Paintings, Photographs, and Novels
Real Likenesses: Representation in Paintings, Photographs, and Novels by Michael Morris
2020 | ISBN: 0198861753 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
2020 | ISBN: 0198861753 | English | 240 pages | PDF | 1 MB
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.