ABSTRACT
Kendall Walton (1973, 1990, 2008) developed the pretense account of depiction, inspired by Gombrich's discussion of play and substitutes in “Meditations on a Hobby Horse” (1951). For Walton, when engaging with a picture, one makes believe that one's seeing of the picture is a seeing of the things the picture depicts. Literature can inspire the visual imagination too, but pictures are distinctive because when looking at them our seeing is recruited in a special manner: we make-believe that it is the seeing of something else. We don't make-believe that the seeing of a book's page is the seeing of the scene it describes.
