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Gombrich, E. H. (1960) Art and Illusion, 5th edn, Oxford: Phaidon,1977.
(An influential and seminal work, deploying immense knowledge of art history, philosophy and psychology.) |
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Goodman, N. (1969) Languages of Art, 2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (Difficult, technical, but brilliant treatment of this and several other problems concerning the arts.) |
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Goodman, N. and Elgin, C. Z. (1988) Reconceptions in Philosophy, London: Routledge. (Goodman’s later thoughts on the matter - and some useful replies to criticism.) |
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Hopkins, R. (1998) Picture, Image and Experience, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (An attempt to use the notion of outline shape to give a comprehensive account of depiction, and in particular to explain its key features, including those listed above.) |
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Hopkins, R. (2003) ‘Pictures, Phenomenology and Cognitive Science’, Monist
86: 653–675. (Examines the prospects for an account of depiction as engaging our visual recognitional abilities, as well as the wider methodological issue of how a philosophical account of picture perception relates to psychological investigations into the matter.) |
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Hyman, J. (2006) The Objective Eye: Colour, Form and Reality in the Theory of Art, Chicago: University of Chicago Press. (A defence of the view that pictorial representation exploits objective resemblances in colour and shape between pictures and what they represent.) |
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Kulvicki, J. (2006) On Images: Their Structure and Content, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (A sophisticated reworking of some of Goodman’s central ideas to produce a distinctive view that attempts to address some of the intuitions that Goodman himself did not discuss.) |
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Lopes, D. M. (1996) Understanding Pictures, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Applies ideas similar to Schier’s to a wide range of questions raised by pictures.) |
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Lopes, D. M. (2006) Sight and Sensibility, Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Chapter 1 involves a very interesting discussion of the various forms seeing-in can take.) |
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Peacocke, C. (1987) ‘Depiction’, Philosophical Review
96: 383–410. (A difficult attempt to put forward something very close to a resemblance view, and the source of the original gas example of §3.) |
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Reid, Thomas (1764) An Inquiry into the Human Mind, ed.
D. R.
Brookes, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,2000.
(An important work in the history of empiricism containing a short but groundbreaking discussion (ch. 6, §7) of the notion of ‘visible figure’.) |
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Schier, F. (1986) Deeper into Pictures, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (A fascinating full-length exploration of pictures; sometimes moderately difficult.) |
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Walton, K. (1990) Mimesis as Make-Believe, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. (A highly influential and readable account, rooted in a grand theory of representation.) |
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Wollheim, R. (1977) ‘Representation: The Philosophical Contribution to Psychology’, Critical Inquiry
3 (4): 709–723. (A useful and nontechnical introduction to the range of views available - although it has its axe to grind.) |
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Wollheim, R. (1987) Painting as an Art, London: Thames & Hudson. (An impressive and elegant exploration of depiction and many issues more directly related to the appreciation of pictorial art.) |