Imagination and Pictorial Understanding (1986)
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- Richard Wollheim
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- 2025
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- en
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Abstract This is in reply to Anthony Savile, in the Joint Session of the Mind Association and the Aristotelian Society of 1986. Contrary to some theorists—Kendall Walton is the main figure in philosophy—‘we have a perfectly good explanation of how we perceive representations without invoking imagination.’ Wollheim’s famous view of pictorial representation involves a unitary ‘twofolded’ experience comprising the ‘configurational’ fold—seeing the arrangement of brush-strokes and the like—and the ‘recognitional’ fold—for example, seeing the figurative content. But even if ‘perception of representations is not necessarily imaginative, does it necessarily become imaginative when concepts and beliefs in excess of a certain limit are brought to bear upon it?’ Wollheim criticizes Savile’s answer; Wollheim’s alternative distinguishes the ‘internal spectator’ from the ‘external spectator’. Whereas the external spectator is the normal gallery-goer, the internal spectator is an imagined figure who is indeterminate in various respects but will possess ‘a repertoire of attitudes and responses to the represented scene’, and—crucially—‘is normally placed so that his field of vision is coincident with what can be seen in the picture’.
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- 10.1093/9780191995767.003.0016
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- Oxford University Press
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- Oxford University Press
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- 2025-01-23
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Richard Wollheim. Imagination and Pictorial Understanding (1986). 2025. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191995767.003.0016
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- Richard Wollheim. (2025). Imagination and Pictorial Understanding (1986). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191995767.003.0016
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- Richard Wollheim. Imagination and Pictorial Understanding (1986). Oxford University Press. 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191995767.003.0016
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- Richard Wollheim. Imagination and Pictorial Understanding (1986). 2025. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191995767.003.0016
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