Background
Novitz, David was born on March 4, 1945 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. Arrived in New Zealand, 1971. Son of Julius and Phyllis Shirley (Cohen) Novitz.
(Ours is the age of the picture. Pictures abound in our ne...)
Ours is the age of the picture. Pictures abound in our newspapers and magazines, in storybooks and on the glossy pages of instruction manuals. We find them on billboards and postage stamps, on the television screen and in the cinema. And in all of these cases pictures inform us: they explain, they clarify, they elucidate - and at times, too, they entertain and delight us. Images on the television screen have all but replaced the printed word as a source of information about the world; and nowadays, too, picture books and comic strips are consulted much more readily, and with much less intellectual effort, than the printed word. There can be little doubt but that pictures have come to play a very important role in communication. It strikes me as odd that, in what is nothing less than a visual age, philosophers have had so little to say about the visual image and its use in communication. Hardly anything has been done to explain the way in which pictures are used to inform us; the way in which they influence our thinking, our attitudes and our perception of the world. My aim in this work is to fill this gap, and in so doing to provide a viable account of pictorial communication.
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Novitz, David was born on March 4, 1945 in Oudtshoorn, South Africa. Arrived in New Zealand, 1971. Son of Julius and Phyllis Shirley (Cohen) Novitz.
Bachelor with honors, Rhodes University, South Africa, 1966. Master of Arts, Rhodes University, South Africa, 1969. Doctor of Philosophy, Oxford (England) University, 1974.
Lecturer Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 1968-1969, University Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1971-1977, senior lecturer New Zealand, 1978-1989, reader New Zealand, since 1989. Visiting senior member Linacre College, Oxford University, 1986, visiting senior fellow, 1994. Research fellow in philosophy University Sussex, 1986.
Visiting research fellow University Bristol, England, 1998-1999.
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Member Australasian Association Philosophy (president New Zealand division 1978, 95), Association University Teachers, Canterbury (president 1989), American Society Aesthetics, British Society Aesthetics.
Married Rosemary Ann DuPlessis, September 25, 1967 (divorced 1989). Children: Tonia Ann, Julian Stefan.