Qiumin Chen

Qiumin Chen

30 June, 2024

Vision, Image, Goodman, Wollheim, Representation, Expression.

Image is a high-energy focused form of artistic phenomenon. Artistic acceptance requires the acceptance of human senses as the premise. When people watch a picture, they will first start from its media attributes: color, outline, texture... these elements together constitute the basic form of the picture. Then, vision draws in perception based on these media features, and the brain quickly analyzes and organizes these elements, so the color blocks and lines become images. Is there any certainty in the human eyes from viewing images to thinking and cognition? What "diverges" occur between this complete path of consciousness? Goodman's representation-expression theory and Wollheim's seeing-in and seeing-as theory is an in-depth analysis of this problem. This paper holds that the theories of the two analytic philosophers retrace the problem to the position of phonocentrism.

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