Pleasure of Pictures - Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation

This volume aims to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. It is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one ano

List of contents

Introduction: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation: A Puzzling Relation
Jérôme Pelletier and Alberto Voltolini
Part I: Appreciation of Artworks

1. Seeing the Light: Aesthetic Appreciation and Understanding Pictures
Elisabeth Schellekens

2. Pictures: Their Power in Practice
Dominic McIver Lopes

3. It’s a Great Work But I Don’t Like It: On the Differences between Aesthetic Evaluation and Appreciation
Clotilde Calabi, Wolfgang Huemer and Marco Santambrogio
Part II: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation

4. Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation: Wollheim Reassessed and Vindicated
Alberto Voltolini

5. Pictorial Experience and Perceptual Activity
John Zeimbekis

6. Threefold Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Attitude

Regina-Nino Mion

7. Stylistic Deformity and Pictorial Experience
Katerina Bantinaki

8. Inflection and Representation
Jérôme Pelletier

9. Temporal Images: The Anamorphic Game and the Nature of Picture
Paolo Spinicci

10. Art Made for Pictures
John Kulvicki and Bence Nanay
Part III: Cinematic Appreciation

11. Sculpting in Time: Temporally Inflected Experience of Cinema
Robert Hopkins

12. Why to Watch a Film Twice
Enrico Terrone
Part IV: Aesthetic Appreciation, Agency and Facture

13. Pictures and their Surfaces
Gregory Currie

14. Neo-Impressionism Touch and Facture
Georges Roque

15. Evidence of Facture and the Appreciative Relevance of Artistic Activity
David Davies

About the author

Jérôme Pelletier is a Statutary Member at the Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France

Alberto Voltolini is Professor in Philosophy of Mind at the University of Turin, Italy

Summary

This volume aims to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. It is concerned with the character and intimacy of this relationship: is there a mere causal connection between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation, or are the two relata constitutively associated with one ano

Product details

• Authors: Jerome (Institut Jean Nicod Pelletier, Jerome Voltolini Pelletier
• Assisted by: Jérôme Pelletier (Editor), Alberto Voltolini (Editor), Voltolini Alberto (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367733988
• ISBN: 978-0-367-73398-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Routledge Research in Aesthetics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Mind & Body, Perception, Philosophy of Mind, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Art forms, The Arts: art forms