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Title: Pictorial realism
Related: Australasian journal of philosophy, Vol. 85, Issue 1, p.1-17
DOI: 10.1080/00048400601185529
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2007
Author/Creator: Abell, Catharine
Description: I propose a number of criteria for the adequacy of an account of pictorial realism. Such an account must: explain the epistemic significance of realistic pictures; explain why accuracy and detail are salient to realism; be consistent with an accurate account of depiction; and explain the features of pictorial realism. I identify six features of pictorial realism. I then propose an account of realism as a measure of the information pictures provide about how their objects would look, were one to see them. This account meets the criteria I have identified and is superior to alternative accounts of realism.
Description: 17 page(s)
Resource Type: journal article
Organisation: Macquarie University. Dept. of Philosophy

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