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https://doi.org/10.46640/imr.11.20.5

A Phylosophical view of the Problem of Symbolic Form

Krešimir Katušić ; Free artist


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Abstract

Even if it is a tangible, symbol belongs to the domain of the image because we experience it with sight. It is precisely this original domain that is the link that completes communication, because after all, before language there was an image provided to us by the organ of sight, the eye. We first saw, and only later adopted the language which proves the analogy of the connection of these two forms of communication. What we cannot say with language, we try to convey with a picture. Every culture complemented this communication problem with a symbol that sought to touch the sacred, the unspeakable. At first glance sometimes by a different form, but with a common essence.

The course of the development of the symbolic form, what it represented and how man used it in the past and how it is used now, seeks to show within the opinions and research of individual authors who have dealt with the problem of symbolic form.

This is also the introductory part of the doctoral thesis “Sculpture as a symbolic form in the artistic-ritual act - Nexus” which sought to prove the universality of the individual creative process as a form that allows man to self-knowledge.

Keywords

symbol; symbolic form; communication; forms of communication; form; phylosophical view

Hrčak ID:

278165

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/278165

Publication date:

26.5.2022.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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