New Images. Imagination in the Process of Aesthetic Practice—The Process of Collage

Abstract

This paper provides a brief discussion of ideas taken from the history of Western thought on the topic of inventing the new. The aims of the Design Methods Movement of the 1960s are contraposed to an in-depth reading of concrete processes conducted in the context of practice-led iconic research. The distinction of imagination versus configuration leads to the second part of the paper, in which experimental arrangements are analyzed and their connection to a collective archive of images is established. In a third section, an artistic process of developing painterly collages is evaluated in respect to its methodology of developing unseen images.

Keywords

• new images
• design process
• imagination
• configuration
• collage
• archive
• image schema
• practice-led iconic research