A contribution to the philosophical corpus of art in movement: between the Aristotelian living being and animism

Abstract

In order to systematize from different perspectives all the profound ways that images and words are enmeshed, and thus achieve a more objective explanation, this essay sets out to review the very foundations of images, and to examine their essential relationship with the subjects who generate these forms, who live and dialogue with them, with an aim to uncover some essential aspects of their ontological intimacy as subjects-object. To this end, the essay looks at Aristotle’s main arguments for characterizing forms essentially as subjects-object, for corroborating their incapacity to remain static and for appreciating their dynamic condition as works of Art in the light of contemporary thought