Julian, can you let me know the complete quote: Book/article title, author,
publisher, year published, and page numbers of quotes. Thanks, JanW
Quoting Julian Burton <[log in to unmask]>:
> Hi,
> I am new to this list, and would like find out if anyone has done any
> drawing research into visual meaning, as I want to get involved in, or
> start, a group to explore visual meaning-making its relationship to verbal
> language.
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> I am interested in the relationship between language, mark making and the
> utility of visual representations. How creating tangible, physical artifacts
> can be useful for people. I want to explore how and why images that
> represent significant personal or group experiences, stories, values,
> emotional states or abstract ideas can be useful for reducing ambiguity and
> anxiety .How images that represent what is most important, what matters most
> to someone can help organise experience and help to make sense, generate
> shared understanding and group cohesion.
>
> The two quotes below from Andre Leroi-Gourhan and Jurgen Habermas are the
> the inspiration for this project
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> If any one is interested or knows about any research around this subject, I
> would love to hear from you.
>
> Warm regards
>
> Julian
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> łThus the reason why art is so closely connected to religion is that
> graphic expression restores to language the dimension of the inexpressible-
> the possibility of multiplying the dimensions of a fact in instantly
> accessible visual symbols. The basic link between art and religion is
> emotional, yet not in a vague sense. It has to do with mastering a mode of
> expression that restores humans to their true place in a cosmos whose centre
> they occupy without trying to pierce it by an intellectual process[writing
> and speech] which letters have strung out in a needle-sharp, but also
> needle-thin line.˛
> Andre Leroi-Gourhan
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> łThe fact that sensory contact with the world is reworked into something
> meaningful through the use of symbols is the defining feature of human
> existence...through symbolic transformation of sense experience into
> meaning, affective tension is both discharged and stabilised. The position
> of of human beings in the world is defined by a form-giving power which
> transforms sense impressions into meaningful structures...Human beings
> master the forces of nature which rush in upon them through symbols which
> spring from the productive imagination...Language puts a stamp on the
> awareness of speaking subjects and also provides them with a medium for the
> expression of their own experiences.˛
> Jurgen Habermas
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