"An image is like the painter's Madonna or the sculptor's Diana: it is the result of delicate workmanship."
— Spiller, Gustav (1864-1940)
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Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Swan Sonnenschein
Date
1902
Metaphor
"An image is like the painter's Madonna or the sculptor's Diana: it is the result of delicate workmanship."
Metaphor in Context
We cannot, therefore, speak of images as presentations, as things posing before us like a model before an artist. An image is like the painter's Madonna or the sculptor's Diana: it is the result of delicate workmanship. [End Page 134] The fading Madonna is not the same as was the newly painted one; and the faded Madonna shows little resemblance to the original. For the same reason every image, though it be easily executed, is, strictly speaking, an art-product, and every stateable change is a real change. Hence images are not presented to us, except by licence of speech, and consequently the doctrine that images are presentations appears unfounded. (Sec. 177.)
(p. 134-5)
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Citation
Gustav Spiller. The Mind of Man: A Text-book of Psychology. London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1902. <Link to Google Books>
Date of Entry
03/16/2009
