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Artistic image is one of the central concepts of Váross’s posthumously published writings titled From creativity to creation (Bratislava 1989). Contrary to most common users of language in Váross the concept was to denote the concretization of an artwork in the percipient’s consciousness. The paper aims at a closer analysis of Váross’s definition of the concept in question, bringing the related citations...
The article analyzes selected works of contemporary abstract, figurative, and immersive art, paintings and installations (e.g. Mark Grotjahn, David Ligare, James Turell), asking to what extent visual experience is completed by verbal interpretation. Observations allow us to suggest a modification of the radical phenomenological theses (Schopenhauer, Scheler) concerning the distinction between the...
The essay presents a factual example of how the synergy of iconological and anthropological research can be harnessed in relation to the motif of the Haemorrhoissa, the Woman with an Issue of Blood, which is to be found in texts and images from the early Christian period onwards. The authors – keeping in mind the porous boundaries – put forward an iconological reading and an anthropological reading,...
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