# as and Seeing **Opening (not a real abstract):** Pictorial representation is one of the core questions in aesthetics and philosophy of art. What is a picture? How do pictures represent things? This collection of specially commissioned chapters examines the influential thesis that the core of pictorial representation is not resemblance but ‘seeing-in’, in particular as found in the work of Richard Wollheim. We can see a passing cloud as a rabbit, but we can also see a rabbit in the clouds. ‘Seeing-in’ is an imaginative and perceptual act of the kind employed by Leonardo’s pupils when he told them to see what they could – for example, battle scenes – in a wall of cracked plaster. This collection examines the idea of ‘seeing-in’ as it appears primarily in the work of Wollheim but also its origins in the work of Wittgenstein. An international roster of contributors examine **Authors:** [[Wollheim, Wittgenstein, and Pictorial Representation Seeing]]