Newall, Michael (2015) Is Seeing-in a Transparency Effect? British Journal of Aesthetics, 55 (2). pp. 131-156. ISSN 0007-0904. E-ISSN 1468-2842. (doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayu101) (KAR id:60714)
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Abstract
Philosophers of art use the term ‘seeing-in’ to describe an important part of our experience of pictures: we often ‘see’ a picture’s subject matter ‘in’ its surface. This paper proposes that seeing-in is illuminated by a perceptual phenomenon that has received extensive attention in perceptual psychology: the perception of transparency. It is generally accepted that transparency perception is governed by laws of ‘scission’. I argue that some instances of seeing-in can be straightforwardly understood as a kind of transparency effect, and that all seeing-in is illuminated by these laws.
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/aesthj/ayu101 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | History and Philosophy of Art |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BH Aesthetics |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts |
Depositing User: | Michael Newall |
Date Deposited: | 04 Mar 2017 18:11 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 13:43 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/60714 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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