What is an image?

"IMAGERY DEBATE"

Pictorialism - the photographic aesthetic, pictures to model mental imagery

Descriptionalism - mental imagery is represented in the way that language is represented

SENSES

TASTE

SEE

Do we not experience imagery when we smell something familiar, or taste something from our childhood?

Focusing on one sense can link to another sense; the smell of a perfume = the touch of a jumper

Images can be universal but language is not


pictorialism = universal

Our experiences of imagery differ individually...

REAL OR MENTAL?

And our experiences influence the representation of an image

true or false

impossible vs possible

true or false

true or false