TY  - JOUR
A1  - Pinotti, Andrea
T1  - The Painter through the Fourth Wall of China : Benjamin and the Threshold of the Image
T2  - Benjamin-Studien
N2  - Walter Benjamin had a revealing fascination with the legend of a Chinese artist who entered his painting and disappeared in it. In his writings this character becomes an emblematic figure that enables the philosopher to discuss the nature of representation in its various infections (in games and in painting, in theater and in cinema); to explore the status of the image and of the threshold that simultaneously separates and connects image and reality; to analyse the different bodily (i. e. "aesthetic") attitudes of the beholder in his/her close or distant relationship to the image; to investigate the manifold implications of empathy ('Einfühlung ') toward the figurative world; and finally, to approach a peculiar kind of dialectics, namely the "Chinese". My paper aims at considering such varied aspects in Benjamin's interpretation of the Chinese painter, understanding it as a true "dialectical image" that in its 'non-coincidentia oppositorum' provokes not only significant hermeneutic oscillations, but even a radical inversion of its fundamental meaning.
KW  - Benjamin, Walter
KW  - Wu, Daoxuan
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/44325
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-443253
SN  - 978-3-7705-5782-0
VL  - 3
SP  - 133
EP  - 149
PB  - Wilhelm Fink
CY  - Paderborn
ER  -