The Image and the Humanities: visual poetics as the possibility of construction of knowledge

Abstract

The article proposes a new perspective
on the role of image in the production of knowledge, particularly with
respect to the humanities. In the scientific modernity, image was regarded
as an entity of imperfect ontology. Nowadays images have acquired a new
importance: they have become our chief means of expression and communication,
apart from their important role in research strategies. On the
other hand, the production of knowledge through experimental and poetic
images is still taboo in academia. Against such notion, many artists and
thinkers have created a new way of conceiving the relations between images
and science: the image is real and immanent to our world, since both
are nothing more than action. The poetic image produces a large variety of
transformations in our ways of seeing the world, resulting in an interesting
research strategy.