Understanding Pictures

ISBN: 9780199272037 出版年：2011 页码：249 Lopes, Dominic Clarendon Press

This book examines the kinds of visual and cultural skills viewers needs to have to understand pictures. It addresses a long-standing puzzle about pictures: how can they reflect their cultural and historical contexts and yet be understood outside those contexts? In answering this question, the book contrasts pictorial meaning with literary meaning and explains how pictures are capable of conveying information other media cannot.