1st Edition
The Pleasure of Pictures Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation
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
Biography
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
