PSYCHELIA AND VISIONARY ART THE WORK OF ART AS THE RESULT OF INTERACTION BETWEEN CULTURE AND NON-ORDINARY STATES OF CONSCIOUSNESS

This essay investigates the poetics of visionary art as a result of interactions between local cultures and non-ordinary states of consciousness. We seek, through brief examples, to draw a parallel between images produced in the past, images produced by Amazonian tribes, and the production of contemporary artists and to point out series of meaningful coincidences between them. Despite local cultural differences, it is possible to observe similar patterns of non-ordinary states of consciousness in the context of artistic works; at the same time, such an approach also brings up a whole historical background to the current – and so called – visionary art.