Read Chapter One and then answer the following attached questions
1. What are the important differences between visual representation and picturing?
2. Assuming that painters engage in imitation, Plato observes that you can make images of “yourself and the other animals, manufactured items, plants, and everything else” by holding up a mirror. What is the relationship between the mirror image and what it shows? Does Plato’s point demonstrate that the ability to make pictures is a trivial accomplishment?
3. An architect is designing a building. Why does the architect construct a three-dimensional model of the building as a supplement to a series of drawings of it? How does the activity of model building suggest ways in which picturing is a unique mode of visual representation? Architects frequently use so-called “3D” computer software to create simulated movement through their designs. To what degree can these videos replace three-dimensional models?
4. Choose a visual artwork that pictures a recognizable subject. Explain the difference between accounting for this relationship in terms of re-cognitional and in terms of experiential resemblance.
