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The Creative Ambiguity of Vision and the Formation of a Specific Perspective of Space From the Duality of Greek Vision to the Ambivalence of Renaissance Perspectivism

  • Journal of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • 2022, 79(2), pp.297-325
  • DOI : 10.17326/jhsnu.79.2.202205.297
  • Publisher : Institute of Humanities, Seoul National University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : April 1, 2022
  • Accepted : May 5, 2022
  • Published : May 31, 2022

BOGYEONG KIM 1

1고려대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article examines the cultural variability of vision and a specific perspective of space formed in each period, focusing on the creative ambiguity of vision. Classical Greek epistemology, which originated from the Hellenic visual bias, produced a visual structure that presupposed the separation of subject and object, and a dichotomy between perception and thought, but the nobility of this Greek vision often had the opposite meaning and revealed ambiguity. The ambiguity of vision resulting from the duality of vision and the duality of light and the concept of ‘theoria’ continued to provide a fertile ground for the diversity of Western visual culture. This ambiguity of vision forms cultural variability, from the duality of the (anti-) visual tendency and visual seduction of the Middle Ages to the ambivalence that appeared in the arbitrariness of artificial perspective in the Renaissance. In addition, the perspective of space formed in each period was also achieved through creative re-acceptance of problems that had been previously undertaken based on this ambiguity of vision. The medieval perspective of space, which changed the ancient loose optical unity into a substantive unity that flows with light, was a precondition for the Renaissance perspective of space that achieved the mathematical spatialization of psychophysiological space. This study examines the dynamic flow of cultural variability of vision resulting from the original creative ambiguity of vision.

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