Real Likenesses: Representation in Paintings, Photographs, and Novels

by Michael Morris

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198861753
• ISBN13: 9780198861751
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"