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 Leonardorsquo;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.
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