2020-01Thematic Section
Photomontage: Between Fragmentation and Reconstruction of Experience

Abstract: In the twentieth century, due to the development of mechanical reproduction and press, photomontage became a popular means of communication – popular and diverse in its nature and methods of exploitation (considering press in Germany or in the Soviet Union and individual works of art). It is one of the cultural phenomena related to the change of…

2019-01Thematic Section
The Role of Image and Imagination in Paul Ricoeur’s Metaphor Theory

Abstract: Paul Ricoeur uncovered the creative aspect of language in his theory of metaphor. The metaphor is a special combination of words that as a clash of distant semantic fields forces the reader to interpret the sentence in a new way and see things in a new light. It is a process in which the imagination plays an important role. Ricoeur…