Description
This book is about how pictures represent. Do they, like words, rely on human conventions for their meaning, or do they as a substitute exploit something else–most likely by having a look like what they represent? The issue is philosophical, but it surely has also interested psychologists and art historians. Robert Hopkins examines and criticizes the currently to be had answers to this question before proposing and defending one in all his own, and concludes with an try to see what a proper understanding of picturing can let us know about that deeply mysterious phenomenon, the visual imagination.