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 Xavier Rubert de Ventós (Barcelona, 1939) is a Catalan university professor of philosophy and a political writer. He participates in a lot of public activities about the life of Catalunya and Spain, and he is often in the different media: television, radio and press. | Poetics of Space
 Artists and critics as diverse as Moholy-Nagy and El Lissitzky in the 1920s and Lucy Lippard and Dore Ashton in recent years are included in this rich anthology of essays exploring the evolving notion of space in modern art and photography. As Steve Yates notes in his introduction, the meaning of space provides an uncommonly neutral ground for interpretation, yet the representation of space in art has been a matter of primary importance since the Renaissance gave us the pictorial conventions of perspective. The choice between representing space and confounding the viewer's understanding of space is integral to modern art, and the wealth of photographic experimentation in the twentieth century has contributed much to debate in this arena. |
FLORENSZKIJ Pavel :: Iconostasis
Unurthed
15 March 2008
Three Orthodox icons, the painting of which is
described in Pavel
Florensky's Iconostasis.
Thanks go to Polymathicus for
recommending this essential text.
"In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from
the earthly realm into the heavenly; there, free of all images, the soul is fed
in contemplation by the essences of the highest realm, knowing the permanent noumena of things; then, satiated with this knowing, it descends again to the earthly
realm. And precisely at the boundary between the two worlds, the soul's
spiritual knowledge assumes the shapes of symbolic imagery: and it is these
images that make permanent the work of art. Art is thus the materialized dream,
separated from the ordinary consciousness of waking life. ...
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