What Makes Representational Painting Truly Visual? (2003)

Abstract

Abstract A response to Robert Hopkins, in a Session on pictorial representation and published in the Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society of 2003. Hopkins defends a sophisticated variant of the view that Wollheim’s ‘seeing-in’ can be cashed out as ‘experienced resemblance’. In part, Wollheim reacts as he did previously, arguing that Hopkins has a predilection for linear as opposed to painterly styles. In addition, to have the appropriate experience, Hopkins’s view wrongly entails that ‘it is not necessary to have any kind of experience’ of the represented object. Moreover, his view suggests that each represented component can be ‘localized’; but not all can be, as when a picture, for example, depicts the aftermath of a storm. Wollheim closes with some fresh remarks in connection with Kendall Walton’s ‘Make-Believe’ theory of depiction.

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