Magritte places a realistic image of a pipe beside a written denial of its identity, transforming a familiar object into a philosophical problem of language, signs, seeing, and Representation.
Panofsky’s layered iconology provides the methodological starting point for a transition toward Gadamerian openness and Visual Dialectic in the interpretation of modern and contemporary art.
Kant, Hegel, Heidegger, and Gadamer transform the relation among subject, history, world, tradition, language, interpretation, and the event of understanding.
A portrait from Jung’s later years accompanying his reflections on consciousness, the collective unconscious, modern atomisation, old age, and the ethical process of individuation.
A philosophical reading of postmodern art through Jameson’s critique of depthlessness, surface, fragmented subjectivity, simulated history, and the loss of mythic meaning.
