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Pictorial Experience and Seeing

Newall, Michael (2009) Pictorial Experience and Seeing. British Journal of Aesthetics, 49 (2). pp. 129-141. ISSN 0007-0904. (doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayp002) (KAR id:31630)

Abstract

This paper proposes that pictorial experience, the experience that pictures give rise to when we

understand them, involves the non-veridical experience of seeing the picture’s subject matter. Using

phenomenological analysis and material from philosophy of mind and perceptual psychology, it

argues that both pictorial experience lacking awareness of the picture surface, such as illusion, and

pictorial experience that includes this awareness, i.e. seeing-in, should be understood in this way.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1093/aesthj/ayp002
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics
N Visual Arts
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts
Depositing User: Michael Newall
Date Deposited: 12 Oct 2012 11:44 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:09 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/31630 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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