Marvelous Images
Title | Marvelous Images PDF eBook |
Author | Kendall Walton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2008-04-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0190292288 |
The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation or photography. In "'How Marvelous!': Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value" Walton introduces an innovative account of aesthetic value, and in this and other essays he explores relations between aesthetic value and values of other kinds, especially moral values. Two of the essays take on what has come to be called imaginative resistance-a cluster of puzzles that arise when works of fiction ask us to imagine or to accept as true in a fiction moral propositions that we find reprehensible in real life. "Transparent Pictures", Walton's classic and controversial account of what is special about photographic pictures, is included, along with a new essay on a curious but rarely noticed feature of photographs and other still pictures-the fact that a depiction of a momentary state of an object in motion allows viewers to observe that state, in imagination, for an extended period of time. Two older essays round out the collection-another classic, "Categories of Art", and a less well known essay, "Style and the Products and Processes of Art", which examines the role of appreciators' impressions of how a work of art came about, in understanding and appreciation. None of the reprinted essays is abridged, and new postscripts have been added to several of them.
Marvelous Images
Title | Marvelous Images PDF eBook |
Author | Kendall Walton |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 265 |
Release | 2008-04-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0199720908 |
The twelve essays by Kendall Walton in this volume address a broad range of theoretical issues concerning the arts. Many of them apply to the arts generally-to literature, theater, film, music, and the visual arts-but several focus primarily on pictorial representation or photography. In "'How Marvelous!': Toward a Theory of Aesthetic Value" Walton introduces an innovative account of aesthetic value, and in this and other essays he explores relations between aesthetic value and values of other kinds, especially moral values. Two of the essays take on what has come to be called imaginative resistance-a cluster of puzzles that arise when works of fiction ask us to imagine or to accept as true in a fiction moral propositions that we find reprehensible in real life. "Transparent Pictures", Walton's classic and controversial account of what is special about photographic pictures, is included, along with a new essay on a curious but rarely noticed feature of photographs and other still pictures-the fact that a depiction of a momentary state of an object in motion allows viewers to observe that state, in imagination, for an extended period of time. Two older essays round out the collection-another classic, "Categories of Art", and a less well known essay, "Style and the Products and Processes of Art", which examines the role of appreciators' impressions of how a work of art came about, in understanding and appreciation. None of the reprinted essays is abridged, and new postscripts have been added to several of them.
Illustrated World ...
Title | Illustrated World ... PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 836 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | Industrial arts |
ISBN |
Images
Title | Images PDF eBook |
Author | John V. Kulvicki |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-11-12 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1134652569 |
The nature of representation is a central topic in philosophy. This is the first book to connect problems with understanding representational artifacts, like pictures, diagrams, and inscriptions, to the philosophies of science, mind, and art. Can images be a source of knowledge? Are images merely conventional signs, like words? What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? In this clear and stimulating introduction to the problem John V. Kulvicki explores these questions and more. He discusses: the nature of pictorial experience and "seeing in" recognition, resemblance, pretense, and structural theories of depiction images as aids to scientific discovery and understanding mental imagery and the nature of perceptual content photographs as visual prostheses. In so doing he assesses central problems in the philosophy of images, such as how objects we make come to represent other things, and how we distinguish kinds of representation - pictures, diagrams, graphs - from one another. Essential reading for students and professional philosophers alike, the book also contains chapter summaries, annotated further reading, and a glossary.
Marvelous Wonders of the Whole World
Title | Marvelous Wonders of the Whole World PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Davenport Northrop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
ISBN |
Marvelous Protestantism
Title | Marvelous Protestantism PDF eBook |
Author | Julie Crawford |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2005-07-20 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0801881129 |
Crawford examines accounts of monstrous births in popular pamphlets along with the strikingly graphic illustrations accompanying them, demonstrating how Protestant reformers used these accounts to guide their public through the spiritual confusion and social turmoil of the time.
Marvelous Wonders of the Whole World Being an Account of Thrilling Adventures, Famous Sights, Celebrated Voyages, and Renowned Explorations and Discoveries in All Parts of the Globe ...
Title | Marvelous Wonders of the Whole World Being an Account of Thrilling Adventures, Famous Sights, Celebrated Voyages, and Renowned Explorations and Discoveries in All Parts of the Globe ... PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Davenport Northrop |
Publisher | |
Pages | 830 |
Release | 1886 |
Genre | Curiosities and wonders |
ISBN |