Diaphane
Diaphan means translucent, transparent (from the Greek diaphainesthai , " shine through"). The word is also used for transparent or translucent material , or for ephemeral or ephemeral appearances.
In Aristotle's ancient theory of perception , "the diaphane" ( to diaphanês ) referred to the sensual and material medium in which the sense of sight takes place. The expression also plays an important role in later premodern optics , physics and even aesthetics , as Emmanuel Alloa was able to demonstrate in his conceptual history of the diaphane ( Das durchscheinende Bild , 2011).
In the history of art "diaphanous" is used since Hans Jantzen those no longer with this term in 1927 by stained glass windows by walls spatial boundaries formed as a key indicator of Gothic Kathedralbaukunst characterized.
literature
- Hans Jantzen: About the Gothic church interior . Lecture given at the annual celebration of the Freiburg Scientific Society on November 5, 1927. Freiburg, 1928.
- Hans Jantzen: The Gothic of the West . DuMont, 1997. ISBN 3-7701-4031-1 .
- Emmanuel Alloa: The translucent image . diaphanes, 2011. ISBN 978-3-03734-119-3 .
- Renate Maas: Diaphanous and poetic . The artistic space with Martin Heidegger and Hans Jantzen, Kassel: kassel university press, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86219-854-2 .