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Author(s):	Whitney Davis

Date:	2021	Format:	pdf	Language:	English	ISBN/ASIN:	0691171947
Pages:	368	OCR:		Quality:		ISBN13:
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A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of images

This book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Daviss acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture.

Davis argues that pictorialitythe depiction intended by its maker to be seenemerges at a particular standpoint in space and time. Reconstruction of this standpoint is the first step of the art historians craft. Because standpoints are inherently mutable and mobile, pictoriality constantly shifts in form and possible meaning. To capture this complexity, Davis develops new concepts of radical pictorial ambiguity, including bivisibility (the fact that pictures can always be seen in ways other than intended), pictorial naturalism, and the behavior of pictures under changing angles of view. He then applies these concepts to four casesPaleolithic cave painting  ancient Egyptian tomb decoration  classical Greek architectural sculpture, with a focus on the Parthenon frieze  and Renaissance perspective as invented by Brunelleschi.

A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the disciplines most esteemed and engaged thinkers,
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