Can Movement be Depicted?

It is natural to describe many pictures as of movement. We might for example say that a painting is of a horse rearing up, or a dog scurry along the pavement. The topic of this paper is how this “of” should be understood. Can a static picture depict movement, or is movement merely represented by, or...

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Autores principales: Nick Young, Clotilde Calabi
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:57a98cf2d0f44450ac2c8a58607045462021-12-02T13:03:13ZCan Movement be Depicted?10.13128/Phe_Mi-236672280-78532239-4028https://doaj.org/article/57a98cf2d0f44450ac2c8a58607045462018-09-01T00:00:00Zhttps://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/pam/article/view/7315https://doaj.org/toc/2280-7853https://doaj.org/toc/2239-4028It is natural to describe many pictures as of movement. We might for example say that a painting is of a horse rearing up, or a dog scurry along the pavement. The topic of this paper is how this “of” should be understood. Can a static picture depict movement, or is movement merely represented by, or suggested by, pictures, in some non-pictorial way? We argue that movement can be depicted and not merely represented.  We examine three different views put forward by Le Poidevin, and use his third as a basis for our own view of movement depiction, which is a version of Hopkins’s experienced resemblance theory of depiction.Nick YoungClotilde CalabiRosenberg & Sellierarticlemovement depictionresemblance theoriespictorial representationmovement perceptionAestheticsBH1-301EthicsBJ1-1725ENFRITPhenomenology and Mind, Iss 14 (2018)
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language EN
FR
IT
topic movement depiction
resemblance theories
pictorial representation
movement perception
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
BJ1-1725
spellingShingle movement depiction
resemblance theories
pictorial representation
movement perception
Aesthetics
BH1-301
Ethics
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Nick Young
Clotilde Calabi
Can Movement be Depicted?
description It is natural to describe many pictures as of movement. We might for example say that a painting is of a horse rearing up, or a dog scurry along the pavement. The topic of this paper is how this “of” should be understood. Can a static picture depict movement, or is movement merely represented by, or suggested by, pictures, in some non-pictorial way? We argue that movement can be depicted and not merely represented.  We examine three different views put forward by Le Poidevin, and use his third as a basis for our own view of movement depiction, which is a version of Hopkins’s experienced resemblance theory of depiction.
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