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Introduction: A world made of images
Authors: Mikrakis, Manolis
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Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the fundamental ways in which the relationship between reality and the visual arts has been addressed across different historical periods, beginning with Greek antiquity and extending to Kant and some of his successors. These approaches have historically oscillated between a monistic understanding of the world as a unified domain of the real and a dualistic conception that distinguishes between the realm of the real and that of the phenomenal. Accordingly, images have at times been understood as part of reality, and at other times as mere imitation or reflection of it. Particular attention is given to testimonies from Greek antiquity in which images are identified with what they depict, thereby ensuring the presence of the depicted.
Linguistic Editors: Kalliaras, Dimitrios
Graphic Editors: Kentrotis, Christos
Type: Chapter
Creation Date: 11-07-2025
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License: Attribution - NonCommercial - ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Handle http://hdl.handle.net/11419/14979
Bibliographic Reference: Mikrakis, M. (2025). Introduction: A world made of images [Chapter]. In Mikrakis, M. 2025. Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity [Monograph]. Kallipos, Open Academic Editions. https://hdl.handle.net/11419/14979
Language: Greek
Is Part of: Arts and reality – The visual world of Greek Antiquity
Publication Origin: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions