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Art theory as visual epistemology /
How can we ""know""? What does ""knowledge"" mean? These were the fundamental questions of epistemology in the 17th century. In response to continental rationalism, the British empiricist John Locke proposed that the only knowledge humans can have is acquired...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How can we ""know""? What does ""knowledge"" mean? These were the fundamental questions of epistemology in the 17th century. In response to continental rationalism, the British empiricist John Locke proposed that the only knowledge humans can have is acquired a posterior. In a discussion of the human mind, he argued, the source of knowledge is sensual experience - mostly vision. Since vision and picture-making are the realm of art, art theory picked up on questions such as: are pictures able to ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (148 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781443862516 1443862517 1306907152 9781306907156 |