Abstract
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Evaluative perception |
Editors | Anna BERGQVIST, Robert COWAN |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Chapter | 6 |
Pages | 129-142 |
Number of pages | 14 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780198786054 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780198786054 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 31 May 2018 |
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Keywords
- Aesthetic experience
- Cognitive permeation
- Empty space
- Pictorial experience
- Seeing-in
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Seeing Depicted Space (or Not). / PETTERSSON, Carl Mikael.
Evaluative perception. ed. / Anna BERGQVIST; Robert COWAN. United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018. p. 129-142.Research output: Book Chapters | Papers in Conference Proceedings › Book Chapter › Research › peer-review
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N2 - What is it to see something in a picture? Most accounts of pictorial experience—or, to use Richard Wollheim's term, ‘seeing-in’—seek, in various ways, to explain it in terms of how pictures somehow display the looks of things. However, some ‘things’ that we apparently see in pictures do not display any ‘look’. In particular, most pictures depict empty space, but empty space does not seem to display any ‘look’—at least not in the way material objects do. How do we see it in pictures, if we do? This chapter offers an account of pictorial perception of empty space by elaborating on Wollheim's claim that ‘seeing-in’ is permeable to thought. It ends by pointing to the aesthetic relevance of seeing—or not seeing—empty space in pictures.
AB - What is it to see something in a picture? Most accounts of pictorial experience—or, to use Richard Wollheim's term, ‘seeing-in’—seek, in various ways, to explain it in terms of how pictures somehow display the looks of things. However, some ‘things’ that we apparently see in pictures do not display any ‘look’. In particular, most pictures depict empty space, but empty space does not seem to display any ‘look’—at least not in the way material objects do. How do we see it in pictures, if we do? This chapter offers an account of pictorial perception of empty space by elaborating on Wollheim's claim that ‘seeing-in’ is permeable to thought. It ends by pointing to the aesthetic relevance of seeing—or not seeing—empty space in pictures.
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