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Per una archeologia degli indiscernibili: Danto e i Libri Carolini

Published 2012-05-15

Keywords

  • Image,
  • Presence/Likeness,
  • Danto

How to Cite

Cantelli, C. (2012). Per una archeologia degli indiscernibili: Danto e i Libri Carolini. Aisthesis. Pratiche, Linguaggi E Saperi dell’estetico, 4(1). https://doi.org/10.13128/Aisthesis-10984

Abstract

Presence and Likeness – two conceptual terms which, according to Arthur Danto, refer to radically different figurative relationships: to the holy image the former, and to the image turned into artwork the latter – are closely intertwined in the doctrine of images issued from the second Council of Nicea and lend the sacred representation a strangely hybrid connotation. In Danto’s terms, one could define it as “ambiguously disturbational” for being an image which, although unable to separate itself completely from the magic-related roots of the post-Justinian icon which had been followed by the first wave of iconoclasm, contains nonetheless in itself the germs that make it potentially capable of leading to a metaphoric-fictional comprehension of its relationship to its own prototype. At the end of the 8th century these germs were seized and developed in the Libri Carolini which set forth a theory of the religious image so akin to Danto’s philosophy of art as to present itself as a sort of ante litteram foreshadowing of that philosophy.

 

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