The Dynamics and Performativity of Imagination: The Image between the Visible and the Invisible

374 Pages·2009·5.401 MB·English

by  Bernd Huppauf, Christoph Wulf

Dynamics and
Performativity of
Imagination
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21. Dynamics and Performativity
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The Image between the Visible
and the Invisible
Edited by Bernd Huppauf and
Christoph Wulf
Dynamics and
Performativity of
Imagination
The Image between the
Visible and the Invisible
Edited by Bernd Huppauf
and Christoph Wulf
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Dynamics and performativity of imagination : the image between the visible and the
invisible / edited by Bernd Hüppauf and Christoph Wulf.
p. cm. — (Routledge research in cultural and media studies ; 21)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Image (Philosophy) 2. Imagination. I. Hüppauf, Bernd-Rüdiger. II. Wulf,
Christoph, 1944–
B105.I47D96 2009
128'.3—dc22
2008034877
ISBN10: 0-415-99093-9 (hbk)
ISBN13: 978-0-415-99093-6 (hbk)
Contents
List of Figures xi
Acknowledgments xiii
1 Introduction: The Indispensability of the Imagination 1
BERND HUPPAUF AND CHRISTOPH WULF
PART I
Imagination, Fantasy and Creativity
Introduction 21
2 Imagination 25
GERT MATTENKLOTT
3 Aesthetic Immanence 42
GEORGES DIDI-HUBERMAN
4 Imagination, Figurality and Creativity: Conditions
of Cultural Innovation 56
DIETER MERSCH
5 Intuition and Imagination: How to See Something
that is Not There 65
LUDGER SCHWARTE
PART II
A Look at Pictures—Pictures Look Back
Introduction 79
6 What Is: Seeing an Image? 81
MARIE JOSÉ MONDZAIN
viii Contents
7 The Gaze in the Image: A Contribution to an Iconology
of the Gaze 93
HANS BELTING
8 Imagination or Response?: Some Remarks on the Understanding
of Images and Pictures in Pre-modern China 116
MATHIAS OBERT
9 The Nature of Face Recognition: A Perspective from
the Cognitive Neurosciences 135
DAVID POEPPEL AND CLARE STROUD
PART III
Body Images and Body Imaginations
Introduction 155
10 The Neapolitan Gesture 157
GUNTER GEBAUER
11 Images of Social Life 166
CHRISTOPH WULF
12 Performative Spaces and Imagined Spaces: How Bodily
Movement Sets the Imagination in Motion 178
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE
13 Media Images, Sports Rituals and the Imaginary 188
K. LUDWIG PFEIFFER
14 Ferocious Images 202
PETER SLOTERDIJK
PART IV
Indeterminacy and Fuzziness of Images
Introduction 217
15 Indeterminacy: On the Logic of the Image 219
GOTTFRIED BOEHM
Contents ix
16 Between Imitation and Simulation: Towards an Aesthetics of
Fuzzy Images 230
BERND HUPPAUF
17 A Small History (of) Still Passing 254
REBECCA SCHNEIDER
18 Scribbling, Scraping off, Painting over: Effacing Pictures in
Literary Texts 270
GABRIELE BRANDSTETTER
19 Kierkegaard’s Shadow Figures 283
MARTIN PUCHNER
PART V
Constructions of the Visual
Introduction 297
20 The Unspeakable and the Unimaginable: Word and Image
in a Time of Terror 299
W. J. T. MITCHELL
21 Face and Mass: Towards an Aesthetic of the Cross-Cut in Film 314
GERTRUD KOCH
22 Synaesthesia: Physiological Diagnosis, Practice of Perception,
Art Program: A Semiotic Re-analysis 323
ROLAND POSNER AND DAGMAR SCHMAUKS
23 Recognisability and Visual Evidence in Medical Imaging versus
Scientifi c Objectivity 339
BRITTA SCHINZEL
Notes on Contributors 357
Index 365
Figures
7.1 Man Ray, Portrait of Jean Cocteau (1922). 98
7.2 Parmigianino, Self-portrait in front of convex mirror, 1523. 99
7.3 Jan Vermeer, De Schilderkonst, 1665. 100
7.4 Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656. 103
7.5 Hanging of Las Meninas, Prado, 2003. 104
7.6 Rembrandt, Bathseba, 1653. 109
7.7 Georges de la Tour, Le Tricheur. 110
7.8 Amédée Van Loo, Soap Bubbles, 1764. 111
7.9 Amédée Van Loo, Laterna Magica, 1764. 112
9.1 The two images in (a) illustrate the diffi culty in recognizing
an inverted face, even if the image is frequently encountered
(Paul McCartney). The images in (b) show that even coarse
and grotesque distortions do not jump out at the viewer
when the facial image is inverted (John Lennon). 139
9.2 A view of the left hemisphere of the human brain. 143
9.3 Gabriele Leidloff, “Ugly Casting 1.6.”, 1997/2006. 144
9.4 The effect of spatial frequency fi ltering on images of a
face and an object. 144
15.1 Paul Cézanne, La Montagne Sainte Victoire, 1904–1906. 221
15.2 Claude Monet, Beneath Lemon Trees, 1884, Kopenhagen. 223
15.3 Mark Tobey, Autumnal Light, 1965. 224