THE INVISIBLE CITY AS POSSIBLE WORLD
THE INVISIBLE CITY AS POSSIBLE WORLD

Summary/Abstract: The invisible cities represent the urban spaces built upon the individuals’memory and imagination. Placed in the field of arts, the invisible city becomes anact of creation rather than discovery, involving both the creator and the receiver. Itis not reality that generates this city but imagination. As a polymorphic form, theinvisible city does not exist in itself but needs to be revealed in the process of artisticcreation and reception. Being defined as the artist’s subjective and selective viewsupon an alternative space, the invisible city appears not only as an imaginary butalso as an intentional state. The artist and the receptor are connected through theartistic representation of the invisible city. Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, PietMondrian’s Broadway Boogie Woogie and Wim Wender’s Wings of Desire are onlythree examples of invisible cities becoming possible worlds on the basis ofrepresentational space theory. The study intends to apply the concept of possibleworld on the artistic representations of the invisible city as a mental product ofliterature, painting and cinematography in order to define it as a self-sufficientsystem of structures and relations, meant to create other possible worlds in the sameartistic field or linking one art to another.

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