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Sandström, Sven

 
9783330326811: Explaining the Obvious: Initiating a theory of visual images
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ISBN 10: 3330326816 ISBN 13: 9783330326811
Editorial: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2017

Sinopsis

"Explaining the obvious" is a study of rational cognition related to sense impressions and independent of language. Wordless awareness is usually taken for granted without any specific focus on underlying cognitive structure. Wittgenstein, in his "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" describing image as a cognitive type accessible from the linguistic and logical system, bluntly denied that meaning could be other than linguistic meaning. In contrast, the present book highlights two qualities of visual images, illustrating a deep difference between image and language as a system and from both structural and functional aspects: Firstly, attending to a visual image and giving it meaning, only oneself becomes aware of the resulting meaning. It is question of inner cognition, not a communication. Secondly, visual images appear as a spread out surface, spatial and simultaneously multidimensional - in contrast to language that is digital and linear in time. Artistic manifestations, whether pictorial art or music, come forth independently of language and must be expressive of meaning beyond verbal representations.

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Reseña del editor

"Explaining the obvious" is a study of rational cognition related to sense impressions and independent of language. Wordless awareness is usually taken for granted without any specific focus on underlying cognitive structure. Wittgenstein, in his "Tractatus logico-philosophicus" describing image as a cognitive type accessible from the linguistic and logical system, bluntly denied that meaning could be other than linguistic meaning. In contrast, the present book highlights two qualities of visual images, illustrating a deep difference between image and language as a system and from both structural and functional aspects: Firstly, attending to a visual image and giving it meaning, only oneself becomes aware of the resulting meaning. It is question of inner cognition, not a communication. Secondly, visual images appear as a spread out surface, spatial and simultaneously multidimensional - in contrast to language that is digital and linear in time. Artistic manifestations, whether pictorial art or music, come forth independently of language and must be expressive of meaning beyond verbal representations.

Biografía del autor

Sven Sandström, a Swedish professor of contemporary art, was born in 1927. His works span over vast fields from his thesis on the French artist Redon and studies into Italian mural paintings, concentrating in later years on the outlining of a new theory on visual cognition and spatial meaning, a theme that is further developed in the present book.

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LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Año de publicación
2017
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ISBN 10 
3330326816
ISBN 13 
9783330326811
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Número de páginas
104
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