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How long does it take to read What Is a Picture??

Michael Newall

What Is a Picture? by Michael Newall takes about 4 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 4 hours 17 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2011. 234 pages, about 64,350 words.

9 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 7 hours 9 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 4 hours 17 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 2 hours 41 minutes

The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

"Using an approach deeply informed by philosophy of art, art history and perceptual psychology, this book places seeing at the centre of an original theory of pictorial representation and explores the ramifications such a theory has for the visual arts"--

Subjects: Art, Philosophy, A sthetik, Bildwissenschaft, Picture interpretation, Art, philosophy

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