Inflection and Representation

Jérôme Pelletier (1)

1 IJN - Institut Jean-Nicod

Two criteria of inflection emerge from the philosophical discussion on inflection. The first criterion "Coalescence" (C) refers to the amalgamation of surface and ordinary properties in objects or scenes seen in inflected pictures. And "Face-to-Face Unseeability" (FFU), the second criterion of inflection, refers to the kind of objects or scenes seen in inflected pictorial experiences. A consequence of Style Inflectionism will be a reduction of indeterminacies. For a viewer of Magritte's Le Blanc-Seing who endorses Style Separatism, the scene correctly seen in the painting and represented by it will be of a non-particular woman riding a non-particular horse in a landscape in indeterminate ways. Style Separatism, though being a view inadequate for inflected pictures, remains a view relevant for many non-inflected pictures. The blurred contours are configurational items which do not claim to be part of the painting's content; Style Separatism is effective for Vermeer's paintings. These imaginings without representation have a precious aesthetic value.

Domaines: Philosophie

Jérôme Pelletier. Inflection and Representation. Jérôme Pelletier; Alberto Voltolini. The Pleasure of Pictures: Pictorial Experience and Aesthetic Appreciation, Routledge Research in Aesthetics, pp.145-161, 2019, 9781315112640. ⟨10.4324/9781315112640⟩. ⟨hal-03882154⟩