ABSTRACT
Wollheim thinks make believe based theories of depiction and experienced resemblance theories spell out his narrow substantive claim that representation is to be understood in terms of seeing-in in ways deeply at odds with his broader structural claim that the content of a picture is that of the visual experience are meant to have in front of it. Small-scale explorations by individuals in the course of making particular pictures contribute to large-scale explorations by communities of picture makers as they invent, promulgate re-deployable appearance-capturing routines, informed by hard-won empirical insights into how human vision works. In visualization, set of conceptual specifications for an object or scene and proceed to conjure up something that answers to those specifications, presenting in visual terms from some particular visual point of view. Consider ekphrasis, the traditional rhetorical exercise in which one describes a depiction by describing the things depicted in it, as if one were face to face with those very things.
