The Pedagogical Primacy of Language in Mental Imagery: Pictorialism vs. Descriptionalism

IF 0.4 4区 社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY
E. Luft
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Abstract:This paper argues for the primacy of language over vision as a means of communication. Words convey information more clearly, accurately, reliably, and profoundly than images do. Images by themselves give only impressions; they do not denote, unless accompanied by some sort or level of description. Also, any visual image, whether physical or mental, unless it is eidetic, must involve some degree of interpretation, interpolation, or description for it to be capable of conveying information, having meaning, or even being intelligible. Pictorialism is the theory that mental imagery is visual, while descriptionalism holds that mental imagery is nonvisual. As an epistemology, pictorialism supports representationalism as a philosophy of art. The poverty and limitations of representational theories of art militate against pictorialism. Descriptionalism as an epistemology supports several versions of symbolist theories of art. The richness and versatility of symbolic interpretations of art works support descriptionalism. Pictorialism fails the test of consistency unless eidetic imagery exists. Any pictorialism that claims support from noneidetic imagery or invokes the photographic fallacy is in fact a crypto- or quasi-descriptionalism. Since the photographic fallacy denies eidetic imagery, it is invalid and misbegotten as a defense of pictorialism. The interplay between the richness of visual images and the precision of verbal descriptions is a key element in developing a comprehensive pedagogy of aesthetics.
语言在心理意象教学中的首要地位:图画主义与描述主义
摘要:作为一种交流手段,语言比视觉更重要。文字比图像更清晰、准确、可靠和深刻地传达信息。形象本身只能给人印象;它们不表示,除非附有某种或某种程度的描述。此外,任何视觉图像,无论是物理的还是精神的,除非它是清晰的,必须涉及某种程度的解释,插值或描述,以便能够传达信息,具有意义,甚至是可理解的。意象主义认为心理意象是视觉的,而描述主义认为心理意象是非视觉的。作为一种认识论,绘画主义支持具象主义作为一种艺术哲学。具象艺术理论的贫乏和局限性阻碍了绘画主义的发展。描述主义作为一种认识论,支持了象征主义艺术理论的几个版本。艺术作品的符号解释的丰富性和多样性支持了描述主义。图画主义不能通过一致性检验,除非有清晰的意象存在。任何声称得到非形象意象支持或援引摄影谬误的绘画主义,实际上都是一种密码或准描述主义。既然摄影谬误否定了清晰的图像,那么它作为对绘画主义的辩护是无效的和错误的。视觉图像的丰富性与语言描述的精确性之间的相互作用是发展综合美学教育学的关键因素。
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JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION
JOURNAL OF AESTHETIC EDUCATION HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Aesthetic Education (JAE) is a highly respected interdisciplinary journal that focuses on clarifying the issues of aesthetic education understood in its most extensive meaning. The journal thus welcomes articles on philosophical aesthetics and education, to problem areas in education critical to arts and humanities at all institutional levels; to an understanding of the aesthetic import of the new communications media and environmental aesthetics; and to an understanding of the aesthetic character of humanistic disciplines. The journal is a valuable resource not only to educators, but also to philosophers, art critics and art historians.
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