What are the challenges and opportunities posed to the dominant interpretive paradigms of visual studies by the rise of a new fascination with the object? How can the study of visual culture respond ...to what has been variously termed a `pictorial' or an `iconic' turn? Can this phenomenological concern for the power of the image to determine its own reception be incorporated into approaches that emphasize its political implications? Is it possible to conceive of the image as both a representation and a presentation at the same time?
...I do not believe Didi-Huberman would never be able to understand the Hindu goddess, but he cannot do so on an intuitive level. ...in any translation, one needs to exercise subtlety, imagination, ...and caution. ...our act of translation cannot depend on our direct instinctive reflexes but needs our own cultural "armature" to take the imaginative leap.
MIMESIS AND ICONOCLASM MOXEY, KEITH
Art history,
February 2009, Letnik:
32, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
What is the enduring power of mimesis? What hold do paintings that mimic perception have over our imagination? This essay analyses Hans Holbein the Younger's portrait of The Ambassadors to assess its ...magic both for ourselves in the present and for those who first beheld it. The very structure of the work, its facture, is invested with an iconic vitality that we often overlook. Its surface is alive with a thoroughly medieval sense of pictorial presence that Reformation image theory sought to destroy. The shadow of iconoclasm that hangs over these pictures lends them a particular poignancy, for the illusionism that once endowed the dead with afterlife continues to invest them with remarkable ontological power. The to‐and‐fro of our perceptual encounter with the world insists that we ascribe such paintings an agency that exceeds our own.
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