%0 Generic %A Koenderink, Jan %D 2015 %T Parts and Wholes in Pictorial Art %U https://brill.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Parts_and_Wholes_in_Pictorial_Art/1375563 %R 10.6084/m9.figshare.1375563.v1 %2 https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/2015075 %K art %K phenomenology %K perception %K mereology %K parts and wholes %K Art %X

The part–whole relation is fundamental to the Gestalt description of visual awareness; therefore one
expects it to play an equally important role in the visual arts. The formal science of parthood relations
is mereology. Thus, it is natural to attempt to construct a mereological account of the structure of
works of the visual arts. However, I argue in this paper that such a program is headed for failure.
There are various reasons for this, perhaps the more interesting being that one deals with parallel
pictorial worlds.

 

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