Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček
Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček "Images are names for we cannot name,” says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art…
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Thinking through the image: The visual events of Miroslav Petříček
"Images are names for we cannot name,” says the philosopher, teacher, and translator Miroslav Petříček, who written on visual art for several decades. The main idea behind the exhibition and its accompanying publication is was the presupposition that an encounter with an image is primarily a visual event. He has summarized his observations in, among other things, the book Thinking Through the Image: A Guide to Contemporary Philosophical Thought for the Non-Intermediate (2009), which formed the impulse for the 2023 exhibition at Prague City Gallery.
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