Bogdan Chernyakevich
Reassessing Gombrich's Theory of Illusion for the 21st Century
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ERNST GOMBRICH is the author of the famous work, Art and Illusion,
which became widely known in the early 1960s and continues to be
reprinted to this day. On the one hand, readers and modern thinkers are
interested in the story of art, told through its relation with illusion,
and on the other hand, they do not use its concepts to assess the
processes occurring in today’s social, ontological, and artistic
spheres, especially when the question of artistic skill has been
relegated significantly to the background in the modern debate.
This
research re-evaluates Gombrich’s theory of illusion in relation to the
techno-social and political environment of today’s image-making. It is
hoped that detecting and building connections between the ideas of
Gombrich and contemporary philosophers of mind will allow us to be
better equipped to attend to the novel features of the art world and its
practices in a post-computational society.
BOGDAN
CHERNYAKEVICH is a researcher, architect, and designer. He is also a
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Interior Design at the State
Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design in Saint Petersburg, and a member of
the Artists Union of Russia in the Department of Graphics. Since
obtaining a Master’s Degree in Spatial Design at The University of Art
and Design Helsinki, Bogdan has worked as an architect at several
companies in Finland, France, and Russia, including his own company. In
recent years, he has focused on academic activities, teaching at several
institutions of higher education, and research, which has resulted in
several publications including an article, “Alteration of visual
representation of space in different historical epoques.” His interest
lies in the sphere of understanding the image as a constructive basis of
our today’s objectivity–subjectivity debate, where the conceptual
comprehension of reality is complicated by imaginal spaces, imaginal
objects, and imaginal politics.