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@article{ART001925634},
author={Seung-Chol Shin},
title={‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination},
journal={The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art},
issn={1229-0246},
year={2014},
volume={42},
pages={253-286}

TY - JOUR
AU - Seung-Chol Shin
TI - ‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination
JO - The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
PY - 2014
VL - 42
IS - null
PB - 한국미학예술학회
SP - 253
EP - 286
SN - 1229-0246
AB - This paper discusses the paradox of dualism in the practice of art. In the influence of Plato, who stressed the priority of Idea, the history of art couldn't have been free from the schema of form and material. The artistic practice is observed as the realization of inner form, and in this reductionist position the critical import of material production has been expelled. The topos, ‘Raphael without hands’ appeared in this regard. It bears an innate respect for metaphysics. In his Emilia Galotti, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote, “Or do you think, […] that Raphael would not have been the greatest artistic genius had he unfortunately been born without hands?” This assertion implies the spiritualization of handicraft. The Hand was considered as a important organ, which can visualize the inner form, but it had to be obedient to mind. Not the hand, which could easily deform the imagination of artist, but the certa idea had come to the fore, and the painting could be incorporated into artes liberales. However the overemphasis on the mental form carries over into denying hand, or forgetting the act for Gestaltung. The artist becomes philosopher, and the artwork has been reduces as an Ideenwerk. This paper examines the activity of technology in this self-negation of art, which denies the act of Gestaltung. Brain painting facilitates ‘the creation without hands’, and makes the production without loss of idea possible. By means of this technology the paradox of art history can be resolved. With the return of the artistic activity by technology, the topos ‘Raphael without hands’ can be still in effect, and the spiritualization of handicraft can keep up in the history of art.
KW - Brain Painting;disegno;Marcantonio Raimondi;tabula rasa;Imagination;Raphael without hands;Spiritualization of Handicraft;Parmigianino;certa idea
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Seung-Chol Shin. (2014). ‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 42, 253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin. 2014, "‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination", The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, vol.42, pp.253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin "‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 42 pp.253-286 (2014) : 253.

Seung-Chol Shin. ‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination. 2014; 42 253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin. "‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 42(2014) : 253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin. ‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art, 42, 253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin. ‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination. The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art. 2014; 42 253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin. ‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination. 2014; 42 253-286.

Seung-Chol Shin. "‘Raphael without Hands’ and the Art of Imagination" The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art 42(2014) : 253-286.