Atvaizdo riba: "nedirbsi drožinio"

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Anikonika; Atvaizdas; Biblija; Ikonika; Ikonoklastika; Judaizmas; Stabas; Įvaizdinimas; Aniconicity; Bible; Iconicity; Iconoclastics; Idol; Image; Judaism; Visualization.

ENIn consideration of philosophical issues of image and visual reflection, the repetitively emerging question is that of their limits. The present paper attempts to grasp and examine a matter of the widest, probably transcivilisational, significance - that of aniconism and iconoclasticism, associated with the prohibition of visual representation in the Old Testament. For this purpose, the rigorous prohibition of the Decalogue to create images is juxtaposed to the narrative in Genesis about creation of man 'in our image' and also related to the Judaist notion of auditory rather than visual Godly apparition. The prohibition of the Pentateuch, in its turn, gives grounds to the rhetorical and polemical argumentation of the prophets, which places the issues of the limits of the visual reflection into the play of dialectic discussion and justification. Apparently, this type of argumentation is also at the basis of the casuistry of the figurative decoration that emerges in Talmud. All this multidimensional issue of the biblical prohibition is related to the archaic mystic identification of the visual reflection with its prototype, as well as to the 'cryptophoric signification' (Jean-Joseph Goux) characteristic to it, and is seen as its gradual transformation into various guises of artistic signification. It is suggested that, in the attempt to trace the most significant threads of the Western thought on visual reflection, the biblical and post-biblical consideration of visual representation must be placed next to the relevant criticism of visual representation in the Greek philosophy (namely, Plato). [From the publication]