February 2, 1947
Alma-Ata
On behalf of
oneself!
But it is possible
to bring it about, and just as exposed
here without [a] psychoanalytic touch [English in the original], and
necessarily “in the form of a column”.
The topic: a new
domain of aesthetics always repeats in a new dimension, on a new level—in a new
quality—the basis of the phenomenon that appears in it.
We saw [English in the original]: 1) the
technical phenomenon of movement in cinema, which gave us the basic principle [English in the
original] of the aesthetics of (silent [cinema])—montage.
2) The example of
sound cinema, where the technical phenomenon in the photographic element,
translating the outlines [nachertanie:
tracing, inscription] into sound, gave us the basis of aesthetics: audio-visual
commensurability of sound and visual
representation.
The same holds for
art as such: the basis of its “work” and aesthetics has to be the principle of
… transfer [perenos]—of the metaphor (in all of its nuances—from juxtaposition
to the image, i.e. from the moment of the discernment of similarities to the
moment of fusion into a new representation).
For transfer—Übertragung—onto
artistic material (syuzhet, color,
composition and whatnot [English in
the original]) of that which we do no express in our lives, is the very
principle of art. Replacement (Ersatz)
of something with other means (dramatization from the play of passions of
“real” personalities to an interplay
[English in the original] of color/paint abstracted from them). Allegory is at
the heart of art’s purposiveness and facticity. (Poe’s “Lenora”—an allegory of
real-life Elisabeth, Jane and Francis, etc.). The actor “carries” the image of
the role, etc.
Such is the
(psycho-)“technical” basis of the phenomenon of artistic activity; and from
here transfer becomes the basis of
all aesthetic methodology of art!
Great! [English in the original]
Still to be put
into the column:
The golden section
Thoughts on what
happens when space is bound (a cage—magnified
[English in the original] to the level of the organism as a whole)
Atom—a fragment from
the painting of the movement of worlds and celestial bodies (or vice versa),
which is already a verbal image, but—with the introduction of
electro-physics—also reality.
And the unity of entire
systems.
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