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Do visual artists transfer private mentalimages to the public space?
Foundations of an alternative view based onphilosophy of language and mind.
Visual Mental Images, Content,and Narrative Schemata
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PPhilosophical Overview: Problems for mentalimages
PObservations on aesthetic perception andmental images
PThe Imagosphere
PExamples from comics
Visual Mental Images, Content,and Narrative Schemata
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PPrivate Language Argument
PThe Pure Presentation problem
PHigher-order Thought problem
I. Problems for mental images
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PCould a “Robinson Crusoe” develop alanguage?
PAnswer: No. Doubts about:< The possibility of self-defined concepts< Understanding nature of interior perceptions< Reliability of memory/uniformity of association
Private Language Argument
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Private Language Argument
“I am going to the bank by the river.”
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Pure Presentation Problem
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PNo images for logical concepts
PNo images tied to abstactions
PNo images present in complex thoughts
Higher-order Thought Problem
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PPrivate Language Argument: an invented,private personal language is impossible
PThe pure presentation problem: not evenGod could tell the meaning of an image
PHigher thought (meaning) requires logicaland linguistic coding – or narrative socialcontext
Problems for mental images
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PProblem: A private language is impossible< Solution: Language meaning generation is a
social phenomenon
PProblem: A private imagery symbology isimpossible - images have no inherentmeaning< Solution: Imagery meaning generation is a social
phenomenon
Problems for mental images
A solution by analogy to language
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PLook at how images are used in context
PPursue analogy to social construction oflanguage
PMap natural imagery types to artistic activity
II. Observations on aestheticperception and mental images
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Balance
Repetition
Proximity & Unity
Public Aesthetic Principles
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Public Aesthetic Principles
Alignment - Contrast - Golden Mean - Symmetry Viewer Perspective - Light/Dark - Perspective
Symbols - Sharp/Blurred - Color Association
Gesture - Optical Illusion - Depth Perception
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Types of Mental Images
After-images
Memory
Imagination
Thought
Physical, hardwired responses and mechanisms -----> “Free” mechanisms
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Automatic Mechanisms - Poons
Memory - Seurat
Imagination - Chagall
Thought - Michelangelo
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PArtist conceives “private meaning” – animage/narration complex rooted in theimagosphere
PComplex is produced, enters imagosphere
PArt Appreciator supplies narrative context toconstructively create meanings
PNew memes released into imagosphere
III. The Imagosphere
A model of the public space of imagery creation,interpretaion, and exchange
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Public Imagosphere mimics structure of mind
Physical images can be mixed with narrative content in multitude of ways
Raw Stimulus ----------> Memory -------------> Imagination --------------> Thought ---------->
Minimal narrativecontent: Imageallows appreciator tocreate manymeanings that do notcoincide with artist’s“private” meaning
Image comes “preloaded”with public narrativecontent: Appreciator’smeaning more closelyapproximates artist’s
New interpretations,new meanings
New elements in theimagosphere
Imagosphere simultaneously feeds on and builds itself
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PUse of automatic psychological responsemechanisms - good/bad characters
PUse of lack of detail - subjective identificaton
PUse of visual language “rules”
PUse of political/metaphysical interpretivenarratives
IV. Examples from Comics
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Shared cognitive and narrative structures
Artist in Thought Art Appreciator
Meaning