Livre - A Glimpse of the Concealed

INTRODUCTION: ‘BECAUSE AN EPIPHANY IS A GLIMPSE OF THE CONCEALED’ (ANAXAGORAS, B21A), p. 13 The transivity of the artwork, p. 14 Meaning(lessness) and sense-giving, p. 17 Reductionism/Admiration, p. 19 Faith calls into existence, p. 20 I. THE GENESIS OF FORM AND STYLE, p. 25 1. Form versus meaning, p. 25 Is form just ‘form’?, p. 25 A layered and heterogeneous approach to a layered and heterogeneous process, p. 27 Genesis of form, creation of meaning, becoming of style, p. 29 ***Matter roaming 2. The psychocorporeal processes, their ‘shaping’ of non-sensorial forms, and the emergence of meaning (signifiance) prior to and outside of language and symbolic substitution, p. 34 The unspeakable ‘chaos’ underlying a cultural/ aesthetic expression, p. 34 ‘Internal objects’ and engrams, p. 37 Sensoria l/meta-sensorial, p. 39 Proto-representation: creative presentation, p. 40 *** Overwhelming outpouring The ‘morphemes’ of art: pictograms and formal signifiers, p. 46 Fragments of an almost impossible presentation..., p. 48 Meta-sensorial ‘representations’ of a real or phantasmatic perception, p. 52 An event in a space, p. 60 *** Space, thinking Originary psychic processes: the morphemes of art, p. 60 The skin-ego: holding the psyche together, p. 61 Psychic envelopes, p. 65 Body schema and body image, p. 67 3. Between metasensoriality, body and matter, p. 70 Rêverie maternelle, p. 70 The ‘transitional object’ 4. The body: workshop and showroom for stylistic genesis, p. 72 Originary processes Transmodality Transcriptivity *** White unknowable loftiness The transgenerational potential Phantasmatic sensing The socialization of the body, p. 78 The sensorium and sensory perception, p. 78 Case: the visual as a virtual category: the culture of the Desana Decorum, or the cultural permissible, p. 84 5. Stylistic genesis and canon, p. 85 The canon, p. 86 The ‘masculine’ canon as a phallocentric ecuperation of matrixial processes, p. 89 Symmetry and mirroring, p. 89 Centre and periphery, p. 89 Diagram and schema, p. 90 Re-presentation and symbolism The canonical rejection of non-symbolic and abstract art *** Still restrained flourishing Conclusions, p. 91 II. PRELIMINARY STEPS TOWARDS A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, p. 99 1. The fields of art, p. 100 Body work, body art, p. 100 The performative body The aesthetically modified body Space-specific art, p. 113 Autonomous artworks, p. 119 Diffuse aesthetic creations, p. 119 Conceptual art, p. 119 Excursus. Culture-specific variables in the definition of the arts. An example: India Conclusions, p. 120 2. Stylistic tendencies in the visual arts on a world scale, p. 123 Mimesis, p. 123 Tendency towards ‘expressionism’ Tendency towards ‘realism’ Repetitive-abstracting, p. 126 Abstraction, p. 129 Excursus: aniconism 3. The parameters of the historical/ temporal and geographical/spatial boundaries of a style, p. 133 Historical linguistics, p. 134 Historical genetics, p. 137 Transculturality and transhistoricity, p. 140 Art, class and style: social diversification and artistic shift, p. 142 Art, gender and style, p. 144 Before image and word: a psychocorporeal being-in-the-world, p. 146 Case. ‘Iconology’ of abstract motifs or psychograms in Berber weaving Conclusions, p. 157 III. THE SYMBOLIC PARADIGM AND THE SUB-SYMBOLIC MATRIX. PRINCIPLES OF AN ANICONOLOGY, p. 159 The scientific myth on symbolic substitution as the unique model of signification Symbolism, iconology, ‘formalism’ Hermeneutic problems arising from the symbolic model 1. A way out of the phallic model: Matrix and metramorphosis, p. 162 A binary (bipolar) ‘phallic’ model as universal semantic cure-all, p. 162 A hollow in an unknowable field: the phallic ‘objet a’, p. 163 A way out of the monolithic phallic paradigm, p. 163 *** Night-blindness 2. The matrix, p. 166 The prenatal process of becoming as model, p. 166 The matrixial meeting and exchange, p. 167 Differentiation and connection as basis for meaning-creation, p. 168 In-between spaces of exchange, p. 170 3.The ‘object a’ and the ‘gaze’/touch; the multiplicity of the gaze, p. 170 More than one system of meaning-creation, more than one gaze, p. 170 The phallic gaze, p. 171 The matrixial ‘object a’ and the matrixial gaze, p. 173 *** Nocturnal wafting of portents 4. Metramorphosis, p. 176 Matrixial co-creation through borderlinking and minimal differentiation along borderspaces, p. 176 ‘Thing’ – shell – gaze/touch, p. 182 Excursus, p. 1. Subject and form Excursus, p. 2. Canon and exclusion Conclusions, p. 191 IV. ‘LEAP’ (METRAMORPHOSIS), RESONANCE AND PARADOX, p. 201 Only in an almost inaccessible place, which might not exist, p. 201 1. The almost unattainable other side, p. 201 An elliptical movement, p. 201 If there is a dark other side, it is ‘wild’ and ‘dark’, p. 201 The Greeks and the ‘Orphic’ dimension of art The Yekuana and Evil as creative stimulus 2. Borderlink and the paradoxical space of intuitive creation and imagination in religious and mystical traditions, p. 208 Interstice: in-between-space, gap, stitch, leap, discovery, p. 208 Creative potential in monotheist traditions, p. 208 The Shekhinah in Judaism The Holy Ghost in Christianity The barzakh and creative imagination in Islam The intermediate space of creative ‘not-acting’ in Eastern traditions, p. 2019 Excursion. The swordsman and the cat 3. Co-attunement, resonance, paradox, p. 228 Rêverie maternelle or the purifying reproduction, p. 228 *** Momentaneous apex of unrestraint bloom I Art as patient and doctor: matrixial resonance and attunement, p. 228 The resonance of body and ‘soul’: the paradox of immanence as precondition for transcendence, p. 233 *** Momentaneous apex of unrestraint bloom II Conclusions, p. 237 V. THE ENERGETICS OF THE BODY: WHAT STIRS BEFORE FEELING OR THOUGHT, p. 241 1. Energetics / metabletics, p. 241 *** Glowingly being torn 2. The energetics of the body, p. 245 Western traditions, p. 245 The turbulent body in subaltern traditions The rigid body in elite traditions The interchanging body in mystical traditions The pseudo-holistic body in the elite esoteric tradition Between East and West, p. 259 The pneumatic body in the Byzantine tradition Eastern traditions, p. 261 Vertical axis and energy points: India Meridians and energy flows: China Note. Tribal traditions: the ‘expressionist’ body Note: Transcultural and trans-historical gestures Note. The culture of permanent excess in today’s haute couture: symbolic inversion as norm 3. The transcriptive and inscrutable body and its energies, p. 270 Portrait of the psyche: the fold, p. 270 The sacred and the imageless-sublime in the religious culture of the early-modern age, p. 272 On some ‘decorative’, auratic types of religious art, p. 274 On black and white as unknowable essences, p. 277 On white – red – black as ‘feminine’ triad, p. 287 *** Split strengt 4. The body of the world, p. 288 Downwards: the earth, p. 288 Upwards: the firmament, p. 289 5. Psycho-corporeality and the aesthetic impulse: three case studies, p. 291 Dancing with head and hair, p. 291 The body of the trance dance, p. 297 The met(r)amorphizing and transcultural dancing body, p. 300 VI. THE ENERGETIC CHARGE: BETWEEN PRIMARY FORMS / SENSATIONS AND COMPLEX SHAPES / AESTHETIC EXPERIENCES, p. 315 1. Incoherent Preliminaries, p. 315 Uλη, p. 315 Energetic Charge, p. 315 The ‘Ensouled’ Object, p. 316 Between Abstraction and Figuration, p. 317 *** Being formed and broken in darkness The Extreme ‘Energetic Charge’: the Sublime, p. 320 On Transcultural and Transhistorical Energeticons, p. 322 Digression: On the Place where Art may have its Effect, p. 322 *** Being dispersed, yet saved 2. Energetic Sensations and Movements, p. 328 Fugue, p. 328 Swinging, dizziness, rocking to and fro, p. 337 Almost not touching, p. 356 Inclination, impulse, turning away, p. 356 Dark unknowable core, p. 362 Bulging protrusion, p. 370 Unconscious pointedness, prickliness, p. 376 T(w)inkling, tingling, p. 379 Sweet humming (bees, nymphs, souls), p. 389 ‘Drop down dew, ye heavens, from above’, p. 396 The song of the pearl, p. 398 White, almost inaccessible, breathing life, p. 400 Fleeting, almost intangible effervescence, p. 405 Between flaring eruption and subsiding cool, p. 409 Hovering between crushing grief and soothing rest, p. 412 Absolute swarming elevation with untold core, p. 417 Sharp-edged submission to life and death, p. 420 Fullness of promise, shining confidence, p. 422 CODA. PÉ VERMEERSCH. INVITATION TO THE EXPERIENTIAL JOURNEY, p. 427 AFTERWORD I THE PROJECT THAT MARKED THIS BOOK, p. 447 Time, body, aesthetic opening, p. 447 Mental time and physical time, p. 448 AFTERWORD II, p. 452