The Power of Pictures
This paper is about pictures. My focus is not the usual questions about how pictures represent or how to conceive of their depictive content. Instead, I focus on what pictures can do. In particular, I am interested in how pictures shape their audiences’ sentiments (by which I mean: affect-laden object-directed mental states such as emotions, desires, and also some feelings and pleasures). To this end I outline a model of pictorial persuasion and consider its application in areas as seemingly diverse as pornography, advertising, high art, and propaganda.
Date:
6 March 2017, 16:00
Venue:
Exeter College, Turl Street OX1 3DP
Venue Details:
Quarrel Room
Speaker:
Anne Eaton (U. Illinois at Chicago)
Organising department:
Faculty of Philosophy
Organiser:
James Grant (University of Oxford)
Part of:
The Aesthetics Seminar
Topics:
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Members of the University only
Editor:
Andy Davies
