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