Real Likenesses (2020) attempts to reshape current thinking about the figurative arts. It is not a new account of depiction, because Morris doubts that an interesting representational kind transcends the various media of painting, photography, drawing and film. Nor is it a collection of essays about various visual arts. Though painting and photography feature prominently, the last two chapters focus on literature. Visual art per se is less interesting to Morris than the older category of the mimetic arts, which include painting (Chs. 1 and 2), photography (Chs. 3 and 4) and, he argues, literature generally (Chs. 5 and 6). The book is bold and rich with provocative ideas. It also has the virtue of being built around a simple set of positive proposals.

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存在和真实的相似之处1

Real Likenesses (2020) 试图重塑当前对具象艺术的思考。这不是对描绘的新描述，因为莫里斯怀疑有趣的再现类型是否超越了绘画、摄影、素描和电影等各种媒体。它也不是关于各种视觉艺术的论文集。尽管绘画和摄影占据突出地位，但最后两章侧重于文学。莫里斯对视觉艺术本身的兴趣不如较早的模仿艺术类别，后者包括绘画（第 1 和 2 章）、摄影（第 3 和 4 章）以及他认为的一般文学（第 5 和 6 章） ）。这本书大胆而富有挑衅性的想法。它还具有围绕一组简单的积极建议构建的优点。