The Cobweb of Context

ImagINe — (or out of) — Context

Leah Gruenpeter Gold | Tel Aviv University, Israel

The question of context is fundamental in the debate on “What is art?” What the uses of the term mean colour all debates about life and art. Since I am interested in the interpretation and understanding of context in art, and also in life, as well as in how visual arts reinforce or change our mind-constructs either consciously (intentionally) or automatically, I investigate the place of context within this scheme, while referring to various approaches to context and raise series of questions that offer alternatives and point to difficulties.

Keywords: Visual language, Presumptions, Representation of reality, Aesthetics, Pragmatics, Context, Controversies

Published online: 20 July 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.23.3.03gol

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