Look a Little (Chuck) Closer
Aesthetic Attention and the Contact Phenomenon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4158800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Claire Anscomb (0000-0001-6808-6646, University of Liverpool, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 475-492 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Aesthetics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0904 • E-ISSN: 1468-2842 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/aesthj/ayab050 |
| OpenAlex | W4245755721 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
There is a sustained phenomenological tradition of describing the character of photographic pictorial experience to consist in part of a feeling of contact with the subject of the photograph. Philosophers disagree, however, about the exact cause of the 'contact phenomenon' and whether there is a difference in the phenomenal character between the pictorial experiences of photographs and handmade pictures so that, if a viewer mistakes the type that a token image belongs to, their sense of contact can alter. I argue that the contact phenomenon is contingent upon, and triggered by, the viewer's perceptual experience of the image, which may be subject to change depending upon how a viewer attends to an image. I develop a hybrid account to resolve how the perceptual and cognitive aspects of a viewer's experience interact and produce the complex phenomenology, including conflicting mental states, that a viewer can undergo during the described experiences
Aesthetics · Art · Character (mathematics · Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Feeling · Mental image · Perception · Phenomenology (philosophy · Phenomenon · Subject (documents · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Computer Science · Mathematics · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |