What did the chained men in the cave allegory of Plato see when they looked at the shadows on the wall? Did they see pictures of the world or were they faced with reflections of their own imagination? What is the difference between those two? The book takes this relationship between image and mind as a starting point and observes it from several points of view. It looks at an archive of images used for brain research. This archive is collection of images that have been tested in relation to their effect on the viewer. Probants of different age in different countries were faced with those pictures and their physical reactions when looking at them were almost equal. On the other hand artists from different backgrounds have been asked to describe their process of making, from the first sketch to the finalized work.
What is the link between image perception and production? And looking closer to it: There seems to be an inexplicable gap in this connection that remains unexplored and open no matter how one looks at it, a gap that might provide a key to the way we view the world and its images...

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PUBLISHED BY ARTWORD PRESS, LONDON, NOVEMBER 2007






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