© British Society of Aesthetics 2005
Tactile Relief: Reconsidering Medium and Modality Specificity
Fay Zika, Department of Philosophy, The American College of Greece, 6 Gravias street, 15342 Athens, Greece
Email: fzika{at}acgmail.gr
My aim is to show that dissatisfaction with the term tactile pictures and the proposal for a multisensory pictorial aesthetic introduced by Dominic Lopes is due to an ambiguity of picture between visual and spatial representation in-volving more than one sense. In order to avoid this ambiguity, I propose another term in its place and I investigate some of the directions that a richer multimedia and multimodal aesthetic can take.