What does the observation of people walking have to do with interpreting paintings or other artworks, past present? Can an old painting be ‘activated’ invite viewer participate and experience it more actively? In this paper, I discuss some examples in which my own art research practice has found bodily movements unexpected sources ways interpret nineteenth twentieth century, useful for expandin...

U ovom članku razmatram u kojoj se mjeri s hermeneutičkom tradicijom mogu usporediti teorijske procedure koje Gotthold Ephraim Lessing primjenjuje poznatoj knjizi Laokont ili o granicama slikarstva i poezije prilikom interpretiranja djela likovne umjetnosti. Da bih ovo ostvario, analizirat ću način na koji Robert S. Leventhal Frederick Burwick pristupaju Lessingovim metodama interpretacije poku...

There is no need to try to ease into the discussion because the issue being discussed here is too involved to waste words that way. It is important to get right to the point. The starting premise is that we seek to understand the world in which we live. This leads immediately to a whole set of related premises that define the problem as being the answer to the question “how we can obtain that w...