Image in Space

I would be at great pains to say where is the painting I am looking at. For I do not look at it as I do at a thing; I do not fix it in its place. My gaze wanders in it as in the halos of Being. It is more accurate to say that I see according to it, or with it, than that I see it.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Eye and Mind The topology of images draws on the new methodologies of the spatial and pictorial turns, thus connecting the focus on human involvement in relevant environments with a nonlinguistic model of thinking. In the framework of this connection, images can be understood as creating environments that are not modelled as environments of entities or objects, but rather as phenomenal fields. The phenomenal fields can be further described using phenomenological methods as transitive spheres - a novel approach that will be emphasized in particular sections of this book through multiple perspectives. Consequently, this methodological framework is applicable to our aim to weaken the link between images and entities and to conceive of the non-locative relation between image and space.

Content
Image in Space: Introduction to a Topology of Images
Martin Nitsche

I. APPEARING

Tyrannei der Linie
Aleš Novák

Time of the Dialectical Image
Martin Ritter

II. EMBODIED IMAGINATION

Another Earth. Alien Encounters in Husserl and Tarkovsky
Dylan Trigg

Gaston Bachelard's Topology of the Image
Alice Koubová

III. BODILY CONFIGURATIONS

Image - for the Eye and in Mind
Komarine Romdenh?Romluc

Corporate Image and Organisational Space
Adam Dzidowski

IV. BODILY OPENNESS

Space in Art: Henri Maldiney's Phenomenology
Monika Murawska

Painting as Heteroeisodia: Does Art Exist in a Special Space?
Martin Nitsche

Rethinking Spatiality of Sculptural Work: Jan Pato ka's Review of Herbert Read's Book The Art of Sculpture
Šárka Slaninová

V. PICTORIAL WORDS

Transforming Image: Duchamp's pictorial nominalism and the Visual Experience
Piotr Schollenberger

The Utopian Space in the Works of Carlfriedrich Claus
Martin Kolá

VI. PUBLIC SPHERE

Arendt - Heidegger: Visual Art and the Public Space
Paulina Sosnowska

Kunstwerke in römischen Tempeln: Einblick in den Umgang der antiken Römer mit Bildern
Karolina Kaderka

Bibliography

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