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Border between Art and Cognition : Focusing on Cognitive Function of Image

  • The Journal of Aesthetics and Science of Art
  • Abbr : JASA
  • 2015, 43(), pp.31-64
  • Publisher : 한국미학예술학회
  • Research Area : Arts and Kinesiology > Other Arts and Kinesiology
  • Published : February 28, 2015

Moyoung Lee 1

1선문대학교

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ABSTRACT

The idea that art can function as a method of cognition does not have a clear base in the history of learning. Generally, art has been considered as subjective, decorative, and emotional regarding its characteristics. At least it has been considered as a method of understanding and communication that is irrelevant to epistemological issues in the mainstream thought of the modern academics which are dominated by scientific thought. As a result, the important of art is not fully recognized in the scene of academics and education although art is in fact closely related with our lives. However, great changes are taking place in this view recently. The advancement of the information and communication technology of the 21st century enabled the processing of images and thereby reviving the basic communication method man who understands and communicates through images. As people became capable of accessing the knowledge they need in real time through internet search, having great knowledge no longer became the criterion for competitive strength as a means to differentiate one from others. Therefore, people wish to create new knowledge, experience things in different ways, and also experience meaning and impression rather than simply obtaining knowledge. Art is becoming more and more important along with such changes in the cultural trend. The importance of the workings of the mind such as feeling beauty from an object, feeling impressed, feeling sympathy with other people's pain and feeling the sentiment of pity, and thinking creatively with exuberant imagination is gradually growing in our lives. This type of change in trend is becoming a chance to pay attention to art as a method of understanding and communication, and the need for shedding new light on man's method of cognition which is to understand things by directly seeing, hearing, touching, and experiencing them, the most natural method of cognition of man, is rising. For such reasons, this study analyzed the issue of the border between art and cognition focussing on the cognitive function of the image. As a result, art appeared to perform a very important function for our knowing as a form of cognition. Art lets people to express what cannot be explained in words or what is difficult to explain, give attention to objects in new methods, and unleash and reconstruct ideas. Art also moves our minds to enable emphatic understanding and act based on it to intensify the practical tendency of knowledge and communicate with it and plays an important function in eliminating social conflict. The result of this study about art as a method of cognition is expected to make a great contribution to the expanding of understanding about human cognition as well as art and also to the advancement of knowledge by expanding the prospect of research in various academic disciplines. Moreover, if it is a fact that art is closely related with cognition and man's understanding is greatly influenced by the cognitive function of art, then a great change would take place in learning and also life. There would be a change in the intellectualist education system, and alternative methods could be discussed in the field of treatment that deals with the health and psychological issue of man. Especially, it would be possible to contribute much to the intensification of art and art education by revealing that art can carry out a very important function as a form of cognition that understands and constitutes life.

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