Open AccessTo the Philosophy of Visual: A Path Passed to the End
Author(s) -
Ирина Анатольевна Бабич
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
observatoriâ kulʹtury
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2588-0047
pISSN - 2072-3156
DOI - 10.25281/2072-3156-2015-0-1-66-69
Subject(s) - interpretation (philosophy) , judgement , epistemology , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , hermeneutics , humanism , cognitive science , philosophy , computer science , sociology , psychology , linguistics , history , theology , archaeology , operating system
Is an essay on the two approaches to hermeneutic analyses of a visual text. The author addresses the “Old man with his grandson” by Domenico Ghirlandaio as a visual text that needs understanding and interpretation. The first approach is based on the creation of a new, quasiartistic reality in the form of a dialogue in the classroom; it provides the holistic approach to understanding as a reconstructionexperience. The second one implements the proper hermeneutical analysis and involves tackling the interrelation of the basic hermeneutic concepts of “text” and “context”. Interpretations that apply this strictly logical method resemble the process of “preparation” and lose much in terms of the holistic humanistic approach. The author puts a question: which of the two approaches is deeper and more meaningful? A reader is to make a judgement.