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243 - Dr. Iain McGilchrist - Beyond Materialism - The Matter With Things

The Symbolic World

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The Mimetic Aspect of Mediaeval Art

In order to truly understand mediaeval art, we have to understand it always contecturally itself. And so a mediaeval sculpture doesn't exist on its own. It exists with in within an architectural meler, within the participation of a person. Memento more in the mediaeval mind wouldn't have been tet, say, a highly, highly whimsical use of anamorphosisin in holbein's skull,. but would be theat skull of a saint that you would kiss and venerate.

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