Art and Experience, Utrecht, © 1996. All rights reserved
Representation is one of the elements of a work of art which together with its reproduction, and presentation make up its threefoldness. A work of art is a representation if and only if through intimation it makes the beholder (or reader, or listener, etc.) re-enact the experiential dimension of whatever is reproduced or presented. Such re-enactment is a disembodied, spontaneous projective act of pre-perceptual empathetic imagination.© Rob van Gerwen
Last update: 9 April 1996
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