Matymas, žiūra ir vaizdijimas: egzistencinės sąveikos
Seeing, viewing and imagination: existential interactions

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with different components of visuality in the perspective of existential creation. The issue of historical imagination is raised in this context, while this issue is inseparable from national utopia and individual existential aspirations. According to the author, the media during exploitation of the historical allusions influence our historical imagination. The following theses are raised: 1) seeing is inseparable from imagination and viewing; 2) the value of reality is distributed among these components of visuality. According to the author, any picture arises during transferring the limits of visuality in every plane, which intersect as the existential agents. Finally, the author presents his existential readings of Š. Sauka’s canvas “The Tannenberg Battle”

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