Bild och tanke
Publisher: Förlaget Draken
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Esbo, Finland
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
Copyright date: 1999
First sentence: Art is, as I see it, the mirror humans have set up in front of them to confirm the truth in the understanding they have of their existence. Art expresses what it is, and what it has been, to be human.
Description: BILD OCH TANKE (Image and Thought) renders an overall picture of the joint development of art and thought, from ancient Greece into the early twentieth century. Both art and philosophy create their own symbolic forms in order to express the truth of their own time. Art through visual means, philosophy through abstractions. Both have emerged in and been dependent on the same social and intellectual environment, operating side by side and mutually influencing each other through the ages.
Table of contents: title: IMAGE AND THOUGHT, content; title: 1. Introduction; title: Seeing and knowing; title: Power and metaphysics; title: Technical instrumentalism; title: Subjectivity and objectivity; title: Image - idea; title: Religion and knowledge; title: The history; title: 2 The all-seeing eye; title: The deconstruction of political rationality; title: The image of autocracy; title: Christ the All-Ruler; title: Original sin; title: The gaze; title: Sartre on the gaze; title: The post-despotic society; title: On meeting the gaze of God; title: The Madonna; title: The dioptic; title: Giotto; title: Comedy and tragedy; title: The remains of antiquity; title: 3.  Nominalism, individualism and love; title: Characteristics of a major and profound change; title: Nominalism and individualism; title: Subjectivity and love; title: St Francis of Assisi and the love of nature; title: 4. A new relationship with nature; title: Abbot Suger and the Gothic; title: Petrarch; title: The perspective of ideas, the central perspective and the horizon; title: The image of nature; title: The image of man; title: The central perspective and the infinitely distant horizon; title: Nicolaus Cusanus; title: 5. the instrumental perspective; title: Alchemy; title: The unified space; title: Giotto and the natural; title: Leonardo da Vinci; title: Leonardo and Machiavelli; title: The symmetry of knowledge and know-how; title: Subjective and objective; title: Kant and the concept of beauty; title: 6. The denial of instrumentalism; title: The heroisation of the instrument; title: The mentality of slave production; title: The dismantling of naturalism's criteria of understanding; title: Nietzsche and the revealed perspectivism; title: The convention of ‘art’; title: Cubism and the decentralised point of view; title: Kandinsky and the secondary qualities; title: Marcel Duchamp; title: The transition from innocence to realisation