Eyes of the wind: A memoirof a investigation

Abstract

In this essay, I explore my personal motivations and some of the findings of my doctoral research on the structuring role of the metaphor of the painting as an open window in the tradition of modern painting. This discussion is accompanied by a meditation on the phenomenon of looking through a window, which implies an experience of the city and interior spaces, as well as of the body, the idea of the world, and intimacy. The text concludes with a discussion of the visual regime that would establish the Renaissance metaphor of the window in the tradition of aesthetic thought, synthesized into three forms of knowledge that, in their own way, subvert the program according to which it was designed: analogical knowledge, symptomatic knowledge, and profoundly anachronistic knowledge.