The Poetics of Mind and Matter : Some Remarks on Ancient Images and Imagination

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RIV/67985955:_____/15:00451824

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Poetics of Mind and Matter : Some Remarks on Ancient Images and Imagination

Original language description

Discussing two recent monographs (Stijn Bussels, The Animated Image: Roman Theory on Naturalism, Vividness and Divine Power, and Anne Sheppard, The Poetics of Phantasia: Imagination in Ancient Aesthetics), the review essay develops some salient points made by both authors, especially regarding the relation of images, material and mental alike, to the power and activity of imagination. It suggests that ancient authors tend to connect the much-discussed issue of the animated images to precisely this activity, which typically operates on the borderlines between the sensible world and its intellectual reflection. The latter need not acquire the shape of a theory: it can as well, perhaps better, translate back into the imaginative activity of the arts themselves. To show in more detail how this imaginative process works, the essay choses one text that speaks about painting, and another that treats sculpture. In the first case (which elaborates upon Bussels' book), the focus is on Pliny's Hi

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Eirene

ISSN

0046-1628

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Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Neuveden

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

32

Pages from-to

303-334

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