Article published In: Controversies, Communication and the Body
Edited by Joseph Lehmann
[Pragmatics & Cognition 23:3] 2016
► pp. 376–389
The Cobweb of Context
ImagINe — (or out of) — Context
Published online: 20 July 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.23.3.03gol
https://doi.org/10.1075/pc.23.3.03gol
The question of context is fundamental in the debate on “What is art?” What the uses of the term mean colour all debates about life and art. Since I am interested in the interpretation and understanding of context in art, and also in life, as well as in how visual arts reinforce or change our mind-constructs either consciously (intentionally) or automatically, I investigate the place of context within this scheme, while referring to various approaches to context and raise series of questions that offer alternatives and point to difficulties.
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