75792 20181123131351.0 doi 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792264 sideral 108683 ART-2017-108683 eng (orcid)0000-0001-5497-4212 Bergera, Iñaki Universidad de Zaragoza Arquitectura, mirada y cultura visual = Architecture, the Art of Looking and Visual Culture 2017 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted In the book The Perception of the Visual World, written by James J. Gibson and commissioned by the US Air Force at the start of orld ar Two, the author distinguishes between what he calls the visual world and the visual eld. The former refers to how we usually look, in a manner that is all-embracing and dynamic from a spatial and physical point of view, whereas the visual eld is static and spatially restrictive. The visual world is the three-dimensional reality we observe, while the visual eld is a two- dimensional semblance of this reality, the optical interpretation our eyes make. This leads to a polarisation between what things are and what we see and how we visually interpret them, between description and interpretation. Photography, as a visual recording mechanism, refers to that which surrounds us and resists,’ as María Zambrano famously de ned reality. It is a medium that combines its documentary characteristic, found in natural signs, which Roland Barthes called spectatorial’ consciousness, thus di erentiated from the ctional’ consciousness of painting and other forms of expression, with a language open to connotation and interpretation of this reality. hether visual language is photographic or not, it brings together the representation of what we see and the more or less subjective perception arising from it. isual language, as a sensory channel, should, therefore, accommodate emotion and artistic appreciation. In 1 20 Paul Klee wrote that art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible’. ... info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 5010 715 Universidad de Zaragoza Unidad Predepartam. Arquitect. Área Proyectos Arquitectónicos 9 (2017), 2-5 ZARCH ZARCH 2341-0531 641231 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75792/files/texto_completo.pdf Versión publicada 122261 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/75792/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Versión publicada oai:zaguan.unizar.es:75792 articulos driver 2018-11-23-10:35:26 ARTICLE