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What is Abstraction in Photography? 1
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Costello, Diarmuid |
| Copyright Year | 2020 |
| Description | In philosophy, the problem is compounded by the fact that there has been little work on abstraction by philosophers of depiction, and nothing on abstraction in photography. There seems to be confusion about what counts as abstract photography: a cursory survey of the kinds of images classed as abstract photographs turns up a bewildering variety of cases, and it is not clear that all could be considered abstract according to a single definition. In art theory, “abstract” tends to be used as a contrast category to “figurative” and means essentially non-depictive. On Wollheim's mature theory, perception of pictures is “twofold”: it involves simultaneous awareness of a picture's “configurational” and “recognitional” aspects. Terminological differences aside, Greenberg, Wollheim, Newall and Walton are committed to essentially same conception of abstraction in painting. Proto abstraction was common among photographers attracted to abstraction in other arts, but unable or unwilling to forgo the depiction of recognizable objects altogether for the sake of full-blown photographic abstraction. Book Name: The Iconology of Abstraction | Non-figurative Images and the Modern Wo |
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| DOI | 10.4324/9780429262500-9 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2020-06-15 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Iconology of Abstraction | Non-figurative Images and the Modern Wo Cultural Studies Photographic Abstraction Pictures Wollheim Abstraction in Photography Depiction Survey Photographers |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
