The Ecstatic Quotidian

5. The Painterly and the Poetic Image between Rilke and Cézanne

Phenomenology of the Visual Image and the Poetic Image

While Lessing still regarded mimesis as the major principle of both media [visual and verbal imagery], he conceived of their capacities as distinct and even incompatible. In the sixteenth chapter of Laocoön (1766), he writes: "[...] signs existing in space can express only object[s] whose wholes or part coexist, while signs that follow one another can express only objects whose wholes or parts are consecutive".

6. The Silent Ecstasis of Vision

The Poetic-Linguistic Model: Heidegger's Theory of Art and the Status of the Visual Image

By the third section of the essay [The Origin of the Work of Art], in which he discusses in depth van Gogh's painting of peasant shoes, Heidegger concludes: (1) truth is Being's self-disclosure in tension with its concealment, and (2) art is the happening of such truth.

7. Ecstatic Mimesis in Trompe L'oeil