Arquitectura, mirada y cultura visual = Architecture, the Art of Looking and Visual Culture

Bergera, Iñaki (Universidad de Zaragoza)

Resumen: 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’.
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Idioma: Inglés

DOI: 10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.201792264

Año: 2017

Publicado en: ZARCH 9 (2017), 2-5
ISSN: 2341-0531

Tipo y forma: Article (Published version)

Área (Departamento): Área Proyectos Arquitectónicos (Unidad Predepartam. Arquitect.)