British philosopher who wrote Art and Its Objects and Painting as an Art — developing the theory of 'seeing-in' (the experience of seeing a depicted object in a painted surface) and integrating psychoanalytic theory with philosophy of mind and aesthetics.
Developed 'seeing-in' as the distinctive experience of pictorial representation — we simultaneously see the marked surface and the depicted object, and this 'twofoldness' is what makes pictorial representation unique — giving aesthetics a precise account of what is happening when we experience figurative art.
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