The imagination is what art is made of. An image does not correspond to reality but takes the place of reality. (Safranski p 286) The imagination uses objects from the world external to itself but makes new constructs out of them which then interact again with that reality. Colours, moods, shapes, desires from the real are materials for the imaginary world. Imagination is a second world which steers our action in the first world and can under given circumstances dominate it.
In the age of media, imagination and reality are woven together in a flow of images. It has become difficult to think about the real and the imaginary in isolation from one another.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Imagination
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