Touching pictures

British Journal of Aesthetics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 149-167

  Hopkins, Robert ^a  

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EID: 61049477550     PISSN: 00070904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/bjaesthetics/40.1.149     Document Type: Review

References (15)

1. D. Lopes, 'Art Media and the Sense Modalities: Tactile Pictures', Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 47, no. 189 (1997), pp. 425-440.
2. J. M. Kennedy and N. Fox, 'Pictures to See and Pictures to Touch', in D. Perkins and B. Leondar (eds), The Arts and Cognition (London: Johns Hopkins U.P., 1977), pp. 118-135;
3. J. M. Kennedy, 'Blind People Recognizing and Making Haptic Pictures', in M. Hagen (ed.), The Perception of Pictures (Boston, MA: Boston U.P., 1980), vol. II, pp. 263-303;
4. J. M. Kennedy, Drawing and the Blind (London: Yale U.P., 1993.
5. Lopes, 'Art Media', pp. 439-440.
6. See Kennedy, Drawing and the Blind.
7. For the account I prefer, and for discussion of the alternatives, see my Picture, Image and Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1998), ch. 4.
8. Kennedy, 'Blind People', esp. pp. 297-299;
9. So I reject the position most famously advocated by Max Von Senden in Space and Sight, trans. P. Heath (London: Methuen, 1960).
10. The notion of a template is M. G. F. Martin See his immensely helpful 'Sight and Touch', in T. Crane (ed.), The Contents of Experience (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 1992).
11. See D. Lopes, Understanding Pictures (Oxford: Oxford U.P., 1996).
12. I attempt to answer some of them, in defending a related but stronger claim, in my 'Pictures and Beauty', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. XCVII, part 2 (1997), pp. 177-194.
13. Thoughts about the role of communication in pictorial aesthetics more generally, and about what is required for it, loom large in Roger Scruton's 'Photography and Representation', in his The Aesthetic Understanding (London: Methuen, 1983).
14. For this last, see ch. 4 of Richard Wollheim's Painting as an Art (London: Thames and Hudson, 1987);
15. and my 'The Spectator in the Picture', in Rob Van Gerwen (ed.), Richard Wollheim: Representation & Expression (Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., forthcoming).