# Sight and Sensibility Evaluating Pictures **Opening (not a real abstract):** Sight and Sensibility presents the first detailed and comprehensive theory of evaluating pictures. Dominic Lopes confronts the puzzle of how the value of seeing anything in a picture can exceed that of seeing it face to face - his solution pinpoints how seeing-in is like and unlike ordinary seeing. Moreover, since part of what we see in pictures is emotional expressions, his book also develops a theory of expression especially tailored to pictures. Some evaluations of pictures as opportunities for seeing-in are aesthetic, others are cognitive or moral. Lopes argues that these evaluations interact, for some imply others. He proposes novel conceptions of aesthetic and cognitive evaluation: aesthetic evaluation is distinguished from art evaluation as essentially tied to experience, and some cognitive evaluations assess cognitive **Authors:** [[Dominic McIver Lopes 2007]]