The ‘air’ of pictures

In Dominic Lopes (ed.), Sight and Sensibility: Evaluating Pictures. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2005)
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Pictures enable us to see emotions expressed in them. However, these pictorial expressions need not resemble real-world expressions. A picture expresses the emotion that it has a specifically pictorial function of indicating.

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