The general aim of this volume is to investigate the nature of the relation between pictorial experience and aesthetic appreciation. In particular, 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 another? The essays in the book’s first section investigate important conceptual issues related to the pictorial experience of paintings. In Section II, the essays discuss the notion of styles, techniques, agency, and facture, and also take into account the experience of photographic and cinematic pictures. The Pleasure of Pictures goes substantially beyond current debates in the philosophy of depiction to launch a new area of reflection in philosophical aesthetics.
Edited by:
Jérôme Pelletier,
Alberto Voltolini
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367733988
ISBN 10: 0367733986
Series: Routledge Research in Aesthetics
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 18 December 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
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
