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The British Journal of Aesthetics 2003 43(1):39-56; doi:10.1093/bjaesthetics/43.1.39
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Pictorial Orientation Matters

John Dilworth1

1 Department of Philosophy, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI 49008, USA. Email: dilworth{at}wmich.edu

Issues concerning the spatial orientation of pictures play an important, though previously neglected, role in an adequate understanding of the nature and identity of visual artworks and other pictures. Using a previous contrast (‘Artworks versus Designs’, British Journal of Aesthetics, vol. 41, no. 4 [October 2001]), I show that differing orientations of a design naturally give rise to distinct pictures, which may be appropriated as distinct artworks by a discerning artist—which also shows that such artworks cannot be types, since they share a common token. The investigation also raises some significant issues concerning artistic printmaking, and strongly suggests in addition that two new concepts of interpretation—of identifying and constitutive interpretation—are required to explain adequately the artistic phenomena that are uncovered.


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