The Analogy of Game and Imagination in Art: Paul Ricoeur and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophical Analyses

Philosophical discourse on arts by artists can be deemed unnecessary because arts by themselves have been eloquent. However, the present writer is convinced that the cognitive dimension of art is inseparable from discourse. In that way art can trigger intellectual arguments to increase the effectiveness of its expressions through the comparison between art and reasoning. Art has its own rationality, which among others includes the elaboration of the criteria, methods and instruments of its development. In this context, the epistemology of art is very relevant to bridge the gap between art and its rationality. The epistemology of art cannot be ignored in arts education because its object deals with the foundation of art, the conditions of its plausibility, its definitions, the concept of artworks, the relationship between art and its social condition, and particularly the issues of its creativity. In order to examine the genealogy of creativity, the present writer offers two concepts for analyzing the conditions of plausible creativity in art: Paul Ricoeur’s games and Gilles Deleuze’s deterritorialization with the purpose to explain the relation between imagination and creativity in art.