Description:
Bildwissenschaft has had significant traction in Japanese academia, a development that is still largely unnoticed by European audiences. While the field's fundamental concerns about the visual shaping of "nature," "art," and "knowledge" remain, they have also broadened to encompass Japanese histories of thought. Especially notable is the exploration of the synergies between art history and neurology. Bilder als Denkformen presents newly translated research by Japanese scholars on European cultural history and empirical aesthetics, and juxtaposes them with key German contributions. In doing so, this edited volume considers Bildwissenschaft as a methodological framework able to accommodate both distinct cultural perspectives and the "scientific" dimension of images.