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Sight and Sensibility - Evaluating Pictures (Paperback, New edition)
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Sight and Sensibility - Evaluating Pictures (Paperback, New edition)
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Looking at pictures, we see in them the scenes they depict, and any
value they have springs from these experiences of seeing-in. Sight
and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive
theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts the puzzle
of how the value of seeing anything in a picture can exceed that of
seeing it face to face--his solution pinpoints how seeing-in is
like and unlike ordinary seeing. Moreover, since part of what we
see in pictures is emotional expressions, his book also develops a
theory of expression especially tailored to pictures.
Not all evaluations of pictures as opportunities for seeing-in are
aesthetic--others are cognitive or moral. Lopes argues that these
evaluations interact, for some imply others. His argument entails
novel conceptions of aesthetic and cognitive evaluation, such that
aesthetic evaluation is distinguished from art evaluation as
essentially tied to experience, and that cognitive evaluations
assess cognitive capacities, including perceptual ones. Ultimately,
Lopes defends images against the widespread criticism that they
thwart serious thought, especially moral thought, because they
merely replicate ordinary experience. He concludes by presenting
detailed case studies of the contribution pictures can make to
moral reflection.
Sight and Sensibility will be essential reading for anyone working
in aesthetics and art theory, and for all those intrigued by the
power of images to affect our lives.
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