Dialectical Time: the fourth Era of the image
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https://doi.org/10.5944/etfvii.4.2016.15527Keywords:
Art, Time, Anachronism, Allegory, Intertextuality, Baroque, PhotographyAbstract
The Immobility of the image-object invites us to consider it incompetent when it comes to representing time. However, this inefficiency was considered a virtue, since art was devoted to represent the unchanging, privileged by the classical metaphysics against the changing perceptions of sensibility. The technological image would have come to fill that lack just when this metaphysical prestige of eternity became outmoded. The apparent clarity of this argument minimizes the importance of the «invention of painting», which opened the possibility of practicing a «dialectic temporality», a sort of anachronism that allows us to precisely represent displacement by means of immobility. From this perspective, and using Walter Benjamin’s theory of allegory, this paper analyzes the photographic series of Fischli & Weiss Airports, trying to see in them the story of a historical process of decadence from the starting point of its anachronistic relationship with baroque painting. This would entice me to conclude that the representation of change and temporality does not rely exclusively on technological devices.Downloads
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