Real Likenesses

<em>Real Likenesses </em>presents a radical new approach to artistic representation. At its heart is a serious reconsideration of the relationship between medium and content in representational art which counters current dominant theories that make attention to the former inevitably a distraction from<br>attending to the latter. Through close analysis of paintings photographs and novels Michael Morris proposes a new understanding of the real likenesses we encounter in representational art; what they are how they are made present to us and how they are created. The result is an intuitive way of<br>thinking about how these art forms work.<br>