Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation

Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 324
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781317278658
ISBN-13 : 1317278658
Rating : 4/5 (658 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation by : Gary Kemp

Download or read book Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation written by Gary Kemp and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-10 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential thesis that the core of pictorial representation is not resemblance but 'seeing-in', in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim. We can see a passing cloud as a rabbit, but we also see a rabbit in the clouds. 'Seeing-in' is an imaginative act of the kind employed by Leonardo’s pupils when he told them to see what they could - for example, battle scenes - in a wall of cracked plaster. This collection examines the idea of 'seeing-in' as it appears primarily in the work of Wollheim but also its origins in the work of Wittgenstein. An international roster of contributors examine topics such as the contrast between seeing-in and seeing-as; whether or in what sense Wollheim can be thought of as borrowing from Wittgenstein; the idea that all perception is conceptual or propositional; the metaphor of figure and ground and its relation to the notion of 'two-foldedness'; the importance in art of emotion and the imagination. Wollheim, Wittgenstein and Pictorial Representation: Seeing-as and Seeing-in is essential reading for students and scholars of aesthetics and philosophy of art, and also of interest to those in related subjects such as philosophy of mind and art theory.


Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation Related Books

Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation
Language: en
Pages: 324
Authors: Gary Kemp
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-06-10 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? This collection
Looking Through Images
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: Emmanuel Alloa
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-05 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

GET EBOOK

Images have always stirred ambivalent reactions. Yet whether eliciting fascinated gazes or iconoclastic repulsion from their beholders, they have hardly ever be
Aspect Perception after Wittgenstein
Language: en
Pages: 209
Authors: Michael Beaney
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-03 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

This volume brings together new essays that consider Wittgenstein’s treatment of the phenomenon of aspect perception in relation to the broader idea of concep
Wittgenstein and Democratic Politics
Language: en
Pages: 343
Authors: Lotar Rasiński
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-28 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

GET EBOOK

This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein’s philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic theory and
Wittgenstein and Perception
Language: en
Pages: 195
Authors: Michael Campbell
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-11 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Throughout his career, Wittgenstein was preoccupied with issues in the philosophy of perception. Despite this, little attention has been paid to this aspect of