 | Nelson Goodman - Philosophy - 1976 - 306 pages
...and the literal or realistic or naturalistic system of representation is simply the customary one. Realistic representation, in brief, depends not upon...correlation, under which the picture represents the object.30 How correct the picture is under that system depends upon how accurate is the information... | |
 | Joseph Margolis - Art - 1987 - 624 pages
...and the literal or realistic or naturalistic system of representation is simply the customary one. Realistic representation, in brief, depends not upon...correlation, under which the picture represents the object.30 How correct the picture is under that system depends upon how accurate is the information... | |
 | Joseph Frank - Architecture - 1991 - 220 pages
...(1968), that "realistic representation . . . depends not upon imitation or illusion or information but on inculcation. Almost any picture may represent almost...correlation, under which the picture represents the object." Gombrich, however, now refuses to accept the idea that the realism or naturalism that characterizes... | |
 | Stephen Davies - Music - 1994 - 436 pages
...picture is a function of (no more than) the familiarity of the pictorial symbol scheme it employs. Almost any picture may represent almost anything;...correlation, under which the picture represents the object. How correct the picture is under that system depends upon how accurate is the information about the... | |
 | R. A. Watson - Philosophy - 1995 - 202 pages
...conclusions about the picture theory of representation by way of limited isomorphism: "Realistic [or any] representation, in brief, depends not upon imitation...of correlation, under which the picture represents its object."59 (We can take the one place in the book where he says "any picture may represent any... | |
 | Kim Marriott, Bernd Meyer - Computers - 1998 - 398 pages
...be considered either a homomorphism or an isomorphism. 10.2 A Formal Definition of Representations Almost any picture may represent almost anything;...correlation, under which the picture represents the object. - Languages of Art, Nelson Goodman [3] To provide a rigorous definition of the terms homomorphism and... | |
 | Erik Hedling, Ulla-Britta Lagerroth - Art - 2002 - 308 pages
...represent, that what we call 'realism' is purely a matter of inculcation. "Almost any picture", he says, "may represent almost anything; that is, given picture...correlation, under which the picture represents the object". I5 Goodman's point could be illustrated by the photograph of the man on the ground, which - as we have... | |
 | James A. W. Heffernan - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 261 pages
...or linguistic — theory of visual art was made by Nelson Goodman. "Almost any picture," he wrote, "may represent almost anything; that is, given picture...correlation, under which the picture represents the object" (38). What Bryson adds to this nakedly semiotic theory of visual art is a theory of how painted images... | |
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Almost any picture may represent almost anything; that is, given picture and object there is usually a system of representation, a plan of correlation, under which the picture represents the object. 