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 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.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published July 14, 2020

Reviews

[Socrates · Rating 5 out of 5]

Morris抽丝剥茧的论证Non-Distraction thesis，他心中那副和谐的图景是“to attend the content and to attend the medium are two aspects of the same experience”（intro），论证的那份“物我两忘“的美，我屏息凝神。
降降温说话。悖论之扎眼，正在悖论赖以存在的那套理论存在裂缝。无论是否赞同紧缩论，本书都用紧缩论一气解决艺术哲学几大悖论，令紧缩论更迷人。第三部分对语言哲学正统观念的进攻，其实和维，和Kimhi拒斥的分析哲学命题，相映成趣了。而我更欣赏作者将语言、美术、相片、总之艺术，熔为一炉探讨representation。本来所有媒介在我看来都是思的形式，过度拘泥语言会产生麻烦。