The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation

ISBN-13: 9780367733988 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str.

Jérôme Pelletier; Alberto Voltolini

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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

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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

O autorze

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