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Heavenly sight and the nature of seeing-in| old_uid | 5540 |
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| title | Heavenly sight and the nature of seeing-in |
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| start_date | 2008/11/07 |
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| schedule | 10h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Richard Wollheim famously understood pictures to be distinct from other kinds of representation in virtue of eliciting a special kind of experience: seeing-in. What a picture depicts is determined in large part by what appropriate observers can see in it. Many agree that pictures often evoke experiences of seeing something in a marked surface, even if they do not assign seeing-in such a central place in their theories of depiction or characterize it in exactly the way Wollheim does. This talk proposes a new way to understand seeing-in that is motivated by a curious renaissance discussion of vision after death: heavenly sight (Baxandall 1988, 104-105). |
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| responsibles | Origgi |
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