Voltolini, Alberto

A Syncretistic Theory of Depiction - London Palgrave Macmillan 2015 - 269p

includes index and biblioraphy

1. What is Alive and what is Dead in Previous theories of Depiction Depictions aka Pictures, i.e Pictorial Representations .....3 Semiotic theories of Depiction .23 Resemblance theories of Depiction............45 Seeing-in, Seeing-as, Recognition and make-believe theories of Depitction.70 More on Seeing-in.97 Part II The Syncretistic Theory The syncretistic Theory : A general Survey ...........127 Applications, Consequences and integrations of the Theory.............168 Defending the Syncretistic Theory ..200

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