Picture Theory
Essays on Verbal and Visual Representation
462 pages
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79 halftones
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6 x 9
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© 1994
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Pictorial Turn
2: Metapictures
3: Beyond Comparison: Picture, Text, and Method
4: Visible Language: Blake’s Art of Writing
5: Ekphrasis and the Other
6: Narrative, Memory, and Slavery
7: Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and Language
8: Word, Image, and Object: Wall Labels for Robert Morris
9: The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies
10: Illusion: Looking at Animals Looking
11: Realism, Irrealism, and Ideology: After Nelson Goodman
12: The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing
13: From CNN to JFK
Conclusion: Some Pictures of Representation
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: The Pictorial Turn
2: Metapictures
3: Beyond Comparison: Picture, Text, and Method
4: Visible Language: Blake’s Art of Writing
5: Ekphrasis and the Other
6: Narrative, Memory, and Slavery
7: Ut Pictura Theoria: Abstract Painting and Language
8: Word, Image, and Object: Wall Labels for Robert Morris
9: The Photographic Essay: Four Case Studies
10: Illusion: Looking at Animals Looking
11: Realism, Irrealism, and Ideology: After Nelson Goodman
12: The Violence of Public Art: Do the Right Thing
13: From CNN to JFK
Conclusion: Some Pictures of Representation
Index
College Art Association: Charles Rufus Morey Award
Won
The University of Chicago Press: Gordon J. Laing Award
Won
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