ID Scheda #9713

Sezione
Critica
Tipo di risorsa
articolo su periodico culturale
Autore
Dominte, Carmen
Titolo
The invisible city as possible world
Titolo del periodico
University of Bucharest Review. Literary & Cultural Studies Series
Specifiche del periodico
VI, 2
Editore
University of Bucharest, Department of English
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Pagine
152-166
Lingua
inglese
Paese di pubblicazione
Romania
Abstract
The invisible cities represent the urban spaces built upon the individuals' memory and imagination. Placed in the field of arts, the invisible city becomes an act of creation rather than discovery, involving both the creator and the receiver. It is not reality that generates this city but imagination. As a polymorphic form, the invisible city does not exist in itself but needs to be revealed in the process of artistic creation and reception. Being defined as the artist's subjective and selective views upon an alternative space, the invisible city appears not only as an imaginary but also as an intentional state. The artist and the receptor are connected through the artistic representation of the invisible city. Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie and Wim Wender's Wings of Desire are only three examples of invisible cities becoming possible worlds on the basis of representational space theory. The study intends to apply the concept of possible world on the artistic representations of the invisible city as a mental product of literature, painting and cinematography in order to define it as a self-sufficient system of structures and relations, meant to create other possible worlds in the same artistic field or linking one art to another. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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