圖像學的 문화콘텐츠에서 본 鳳凰의 세계와 意境의 생명미학 – 신화적 상상력

Abstract

The essay starts from the issue consciousness how we can understand the cultural contents of East-asia. The point is the cultural archetype of East-asian area and its spiritual ethos. I give such an example as the iconological appearances of Phoenix and its characteristics. It is closely associated with the idealistic world based upon physical forms of Phoenix and its categorization. Its vitality is to make an imagery of social integrity and to symbolize a common understanding of culture in the historical process through a totem of primitive society. From the viewpoint of iconology, the cultural world of Phoenix has the way of representing a drawing of yixiang or expressing an implicative meaning of yijing through media of image. It plays a role as a container of East-asian world-view and its methodology. Consequently, from the perspective of iconological imagination, it is possible to say that the cultural archetype of Phoenix and its spiritual ethos are oriented toward an integral horizon of creative synthesis and synthetic creativity in the unity of representational expression and expressional representation