No. 14 (2018): Perception and Aesthetic Experience
Session 3. Art, Depiction, and Perception

Can Movement be Depicted?

Nick Young
University of Milan
Clotilde Calabi
University of Milan

Published 2018-09-21

Keywords

  • movement depiction,
  • resemblance theories,
  • pictorial representation,
  • movement perception

How to Cite

Young, N., & Calabi, C. (2018). Can Movement be Depicted?. Phenomenology and Mind, (14), 170–179. https://doi.org/10.13128/Phe_Mi-23667

Abstract

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.