Selfhood and images, imagination and environment, converge as never before, even as surrealism, or, simply, the cinema of the impossible, has become even more commonplace, thanks to C.G.I. for that matter, thanks to Snapchat filters than the cinema of the possible.
"Archival images are images without imagination," Mr. Lanzmann explained at the time, having avoided them in his film by relying on testimonials, which by implication presented the Holocaust as an enduring calamity.
But elsewhere Wright seems to place far greater faith in things than in their representations ("A thing is not an image, / imagination's second best") and to mock the notion that the abstract imagination could ever be preferable to the physical world's adamant particulars.
Written in a ruled school notebook (the kind that Lewis favoured) and possibly intended for publication by TS Eliot in the Criterion, the title essay "Image and Imagination" is an extraordinary rumination on the relationship between art and truth, literature and the imagination.
HUNTINGTON -- "Image and Imagination: The Art of Printmaking," after-school workshop; 4 p.m. Thursdays through Oct. 26; Heckscher Museum.
"It's the crazy dream, bordering between knowledge and madness, image and imagination," Mr. Gioni said, and appropriate for the Biennale because it reflects the grand ambition of this international exhibition.
I looked back the other day at the talk I gave then, expecting to it to sound like prehistory, and to my astonishment it was something I could have read today, particularly to a gathering devoted to Image and Imagination.
Josephine Decker's first feature, "Butter on the Latch," includes crowd scenes of teeming, roiling energy, which she manages, first, through inspired production (filming on location at a performing-arts camp with activities in progress), and second, through marvels of image and imagination, achieved along with the cinematographer Ashley Connor.
Here his use of khayâl accords with its everyday meaning, which is closer to image than imagination.
He corrects me: "I said that those images of the Holocaust were images without imagination".
On Hume's account, memory images are distinguished by an intrinsic property; memory images are more vivid and forceful than images of imagination and less vivid and forceful than impressions.
