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https://doi.org/10.59014/ZHOG2627
Die Macht der Filmischen Imagination bei Albrecht Dürer
Mirela Ramljak Purgar
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The article explores the fundamental qualities of imagination in the worksof Albrecht Dürer, with a focus on a specific sheet from his cycle of illustrationsin the biblical Apocalypse series – the woodcut titled The Strong Angel.Our analysis builds on the insights of media historian Jörg Jochen Berns,who identified the presence of a “film before the film” in the Middle Agesand the Renaissance. This concept refers to an “inner film” that responds toexternal stimuli – from the “outer film” – allowing the observers to immersethemselves in holy images, particularly during prayer, through the stimulationof their imagination.In the context of the biblical Apocalypse, the Strong Angel is a metaphor forvision; at the same time, it requires considerable imaginative power from theartist (Dürer) to depict such a scene. An angel appears to St John, giving hima book of visions that St John must “devour” to keep them hidden. For ourresearch, which involves interpreting this work through the medium of film, it was essential to highlight a key discovery in this illustration: the montageprocess that interconnects the elements of The Strong Angel. This connectionis crucial for interpreting the Angel as a messenger from heaven, linking thedivine to the earthly, the sacred to the profane, and the corporeal (humanhead) to the material (pillars).We examined the imaginative potential in Dürer’s work through the perspectiveof image theorist Ludwig Schwarte and interpreted Dürer’s art as imagination-stimulated and produced by intuition, in which the observer activelyparticipates in the scene. Assuming that the inner film existed in the MiddleAges and the Renaissance as a prayerful and visionary imagination manifestin the given examples, we juxtaposed it with the measurement of sensorystimuli, and thus with the physiognomic discovery of the early 19th centuryas interpreted by Jonathan Crary.
Ključne riječi
Albrecht Dürer, imagination, inner film, outer film, Apocalypse, perception, movement
Hrčak ID:
326991
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Datum izdavanja:
17.1.2025.
Posjeta: 624 *