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SUMMARY:Memory\, Tradition\, and Image Production in Ancient Mesopotamia
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DESCRIPTION:Just as memory has been conceived of as a passive reservoi
 r where visual data can be stored to be tapped when necessary\, so has
  tradition been looked at as conservative\, static\, and rigid in natu
 re. Reworking\, creativity\, and innovations\, as reflected in the vis
 ual and textual repertoire\, however\, and the persistence of cultural
  key metaphors in tradition throughout Mesopotamian history need not t
 o be exclusive. The variations upon received themes reveal that recept
 ion and interpretation or reformulation are not separable operations. 
 Rather they are thoroughly interdependent\, and the way themes are see
 n and depicted depends upon and varies with experience and expectation
 s. Developmental psychology and cognitive science have long been calli
 ng attention to the fact that the experience of recollection and the r
 ecollection of experience are reciprocally engaged\, in other words th
 at visual intelligence richly interacts with\, and in many cases prece
 des and drives\, rational and emotional intelligence. Vision is not me
 rely a matter of passive perception\, it is an intelligent process of 
 active recollection and construction.  What follows then is that any i
 magery created as a pictorial construction steeped in the stream of tr
 adition had to pass the scrutiny of the beholder’s visual intelligen
 ce before they can address his or her emotional and rational intellige
 nce. It is this combination of representation by means of acquired sch
 emes and formulas meeting the expectations of the beholder and Bildmag
 ie blurring the boundaries between reality and image and so directly a
 ffecting him which will be explored.
LOCATION:ISAW Lecture Hall
CATEGORIES:video
CONTACT:isaw@nyu.edu
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