Мимезисът – вчера и днес. Превъплъщенията на мимезиса (натуроподражанието в изкуството)
Mimesis - Yesterday and Today. The Transformations of Mimesis (Art as Imitation of Nature)

Summary/Abstract: What are the incarnations of mimesis yesterday and today? Why do today’s aestheticians and art historians avoid commenting on contemporary mimesis and its specific possibilities? Although modern art is against tradition, mimesis as an artistic device is not forgotten today, best manifested in hyperrealism. In other modernist art movements, it plays a simulative role; it does not provide information about reality, but leads to the world of the unconscious or to the subjective world of the artist. The new forms in art introduced by the avant-garde (installation, assemblage, environmental art) admit mimesis, but often with antimimetic application. Mimesis as a creative effect, not as a way of knowing the world, is what particularly excites the avant-garde artist. Unlike the traditional painter, the modern painter programmatically creates works whose meaning is obscured (if there is any meaning embedded in them at all). This changes the aesthetic reception. The spectator is aware that he is in front of a mysterious work, a work that has been deliberately designed to defy decipherment. For him, a game with meanings and meaninglessness begins, with incorporated ideas and lack of ideas. And just as gambling fascinates the player and makes him addicted, so it is with these works. Their enigmatic nature fascinates the beholder, who at first sight is unable to break free and ignore them.

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