Summary
Jagor Bučan: Inner Form
"This book was written with the ambition to shed light on that level of the visible that is almost regularly overlooked in a painting. How can we talk about something that is overlooked by healthy eyes? Isn't a painting a natural phenomenon that opens itself up to the gaze? Personal experience tells us that this is not the case. Pictures always exceed the experience we gain about them as observers. For this reason, we always return to them again and again, often with the same images. They captivate our attention, but we are unable to determine by what means we are kept in a state of entanglement. Narcissus - that archetype of the grassed observer - is not able to teach us about it. After all, he is enslaved by a mirror image. They are permeable membranes that conceal their own transparent window
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