{"product_id":"9780198240976","title":"Understanding Pictures","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is not one but many ways to picture the world—Australian \"x-ray\" pictures, cubish collages, Amerindian split-style figures, and pictures in two-point perspective each draw attention to different features of what they represent. Understanding Pictures argues that this diversity is the central fact with which a theory of figurative pictures must reckon. Lopes advances the theory that identifying pictures' subjects is akin to recognizing objects whose appearances have changed over time. He develops a schema for categorizing the different ways pictures represent—the different kinds of meaning they have—and argues that that depiction's epistemic value lies in its representational diversity. He also offers a novel account of the phenomenology of pictorial experience, comparing pictures to visual prostheses like mirrors and binoculars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47011512778992,"sku":"9780198240976","price":155.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780198240976_p0.jpg?v=1763666320","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780198240976","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}