Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Platoâs Cave and Beyond

Paul A. Kottman

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ChapterÂ 6 Learning to Notice: Light and Shadow, from Chauvet Cave to Platoâs Cave and Beyond

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From Chauvet Cave to Platoâs cave, we can track the achievement of a heightened awareness of our ways of noticing reality, not as an âintellectualizationâ of reality, but as a series of visual, artistic accomplishments â a significant shift, precisely, in our play with light and shadows. This is the achievement of a heightened awareness of our ways of noticing reality, not as an âintellectualizationâ of the world, but as a series of pictorial accomplishments â a shift, precisely, in our play with light and shadows from within the picturing itself. Noticing a painting of a lion, and noticing a threatening lion, are after all distinct kinds of noticing â not only because the former is an unreal appearance and the latter is not (since, again, that the ârealityâ of the bear is noticed in part in the act of making the image) â but because coming to know the difference or contrast between the image of the bear and the bear is how we âlet ourselves be guided by the world.â The installation of imagined bears and lions on the walls of caves provides the necessary contrast between being guided by the world, and being guided by something else (our âfree association,â perhaps). Image-making is also one way we teach ourselves what is real.

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Plato and the Moving Image

Series:Â Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 332, Value Inquiry Book Series Online, Volume: 332, and Philosophy of Film, Volume: 332

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004398290

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 17 May 2019

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