Virtual Representational Space and Local Representational Space in Sculpture: Explanation by Using the Concepts of Reproductive Phantasy and of Perceptual Phantasy

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to organize the two types of space in sculptural representation through the discussions about the “image consciousness” and the two types of phantasy in Husserl. Regarding the space of sculptural representation, there is an account that the representational space exists virtually being free from the local reality of sculpture (virtual representational space), and another account that it is located in the real space where the sculpture is placed and spectator is present (local representational space). From the view point of the image consciousness, on the one hand, the virtual representational space is formed in the reproductive phantasy, as a space of “image subject,” which does not share the present bodily space of spectators. On the other hand, the local representational space is formed through the “neutrality modification” of the real space operated in the perceptual phantasy, as a space of “image subject” identified with the “image object” by the aesthetic attitude, which shares the present bodily space of spectators and which can reflect their concrete movements.