ABSTRACT
To see a representational sculpture with understanding is, one might think, to be in some way visually presented with what it represents, its object. But in what way? The question is about the kind of presence sculpted objects have, not the means by which they are made present. While answers might be found in certain accounts of sculptural representation, I pursue the question at a more basic level: what kind of presence ought such an account aim to capture? In particular, I ask how the visual presence of objects represented sculpturally relates to the visual presence of objects represented in pictures. Is there one phenomenon here, achieved by different means? Or is the mode in which sculpted objects are present significantly different from that of depicted scenes?
