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A provocative and challenging new conceptual framework for the study of imagesThis book builds on the groundbreaking theoretical framework established in Whitney Davis’s acclaimed previous book, A General Theory of Visual Culture, in which he shows how certain culturally constituted aspects of artifacts and pictures are visible to informed viewers. Here, Davis uses revealing archaeological and historical case studies to further develop his theory, presenting an exacting new account of the interaction that occurs when a viewer looks at a picture.Davis argues that pictoriality—the depiction intended by its maker to be seen—emerges at a particular standpoint in space and time. Reconstruction of this standpoint is the first step of the art historian’s craft. Because standpoints are inherently mutable and mobile, pictoriality constantly shifts in form and possible meaning. To capture this complexity, Davis develops new concepts of radical pictorial ambiguity, including “bivisibility” (the fact that pictures can always be seen in ways other than intended), pictorial naturalism, and the behavior of pictures under changing angles of view. He then applies these concepts to four cases—Paleolithic cave painting; ancient Egyptian tomb decoration; classical Greek architectural sculpture, with a focus on the Parthenon frieze; and Renaissance perspective as invented by Brunelleschi.A profound new theory of the work of both makers and viewers by one of the discipline’s most esteemed and engaged thinkers, Visuality and Virtuality is essential reading for art historians, architects, archaeologists, and philosophers of art and visual theory.

Visual perception. --- 3D modeling. --- A Book Of. --- Abraham Cahan. --- Abstract art. --- Accessibility. --- Aesthetics. --- Allegation. --- Ambiguity. --- Analytic geometry. --- Art history. --- Athens. --- Autobiography. --- Autodidacticism. --- Awareness. --- Axial line (dermatomes). --- Baptistery. --- Bibliography. --- Classical Greece. --- Coincidence. --- Consciousness. --- Copyright. --- Critique. --- Cupola. --- David Marr (neuroscientist). --- Depiction. --- Designer. --- Diadumenos. --- Diagram. --- Direct evidence. --- Disability. --- Donald Judd. --- Doryphoros. --- Ecology. --- Edith Hamilton. --- Egyptology. --- Explication. --- Forgiveness. --- Grapheme. --- Group dynamics. --- Harry Burleigh. --- Henry David Thoreau. --- Horizontal plane. --- Ida B. Wells. --- Illustration. --- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. --- Kilt. --- Lecture. --- Life Story (TV series). --- Literary criticism. --- Medical diagnosis. --- Melville J. Herskovits. --- Microscopy. --- Misconduct. --- Modernity. --- Musician. --- Nationality. --- Neurocognitive. --- Ontology. --- Optical resolution. --- Orthographic projection. --- Paleoanthropology. --- Perception. --- Pericles. --- Perspective (graphical). --- Pictorialism. --- Piero della Francesca. --- Plaquette. --- Poetry. --- Polykleitos. --- Prehistory. --- Proportion (architecture). --- Rectangle. --- Relief. --- Retina. --- Rhetoric. --- Scapula. --- Scrovegni Chapel. --- Scrutiny (journal). --- Serdab. --- Sightline. --- Social environment. --- Soffit. --- Software. --- Spatial distribution. --- Spatial relation. --- Stanley Kubrick. --- Stephen Crane. --- Stylobate. --- Subject (philosophy). --- Subtitle (captioning). --- The Ass in the Lion's Skin. --- The Textbooks. --- Thunderstorm. --- Trompe-l'œil. --- Visual culture. --- Visual field. --- Visual space. --- Vitruvian Man. --- World Archaeology. --- Zoology.