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This book is both a philosophical enquiry into the nature of depiction and a critical study of particular artists : Donatello, Rembrandt, Chardin and Hogarth. It examines how the materials and procedure of the painter or sculptor are absorbed into imagining the subject.

"In 1688 the Irish scientist and politician William Molyneux sent a letter to the philosopher John Locke. In it, he asked him a question: could someone who was born blind, and able to distinguish a globe and a cube by touch, be able to immediately distinguish and name these shap…