Book Review of Looking Into Pictures: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Pictorial Space by Heiko Hecht, Robert Schwartz, and Margaret Atherton (Eds.)The MIT Press, Cambridge MA,. 2003

This acclaimed volume is a collection of papers and texts by philosophers and psychologists from both sides of the Atlantic, published two years ago. It presents, in a comprehensive manner, an important move within current picture theory towards "reconsidering pictorial space". Of utmost importance here is the implied distinction between pictorial space (or different kinds of pictorial spaces) and ordinary perceptual space: a distinction that many psychologists have failed to make.