A Common Image Loss, A Common Memory Image - Attempt for an Anthropology of Art

• Published in: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica Vol. 3; no. 2; pp. 224 - 235
• Main Authors: Egyed, Emese, Láng, Orsolya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Scientia Publishing House 2011; Scientia Kiadó
• Subjects: Theatre, Dance, Performing Arts; hypogeum; cognition; double author; image vision; knowledge
• ISSN: 2067-5151

Teilhard de Chardin writes: “Man, ever since he has existed, offers himself as a spectacle for himself. In fact, he has been regarding nothing else for millennia than himself”. In search for the meanings of regard, spectacle, and vision, we have chosen the syncretic field of art since works of art initiate mechanisms of cognition the duration of which goes beyond perception. This is what we have experienced in the case of Federico Fellini’s (1920-1993) film Rome (1972), and János Géczi A.’s (1953-2005) short story Mint szénagyűjtéskor az árnyékban [Like at Hay Gathering, in the Shade]. Fellini is a legendary figure in the history of film, while János Géczi A., the outstanding Transylvanian writer, editor of Kriterion and Polis Publishing Houses, founder and head of Kalota Publishing House, who passed away tragically early, is only known by few. His individual volumes are: Holdfényben (In Moonlight, 1987), and Patthelyzetek (Deadlocks, 1992).