iconology

The article is devoted to the problem of imagery in visual studies. The heterogeneous nature of visual studies, due to their interdisciplinary focus, suggests that there is no clarity, both in the development of general methodology and a conceptual framework. The purpose of the article is to specify the concept of “image”, to identify its structural components, and ways of functioning in the space of interactions.

Author examines a set of culture codes peculiar to Ancient Greek symposium as a whole defining the ways and means of symposiasts’ acquiring the specific cognitive dispositions pattern.

Author examines the space of Ancient Greek symposium, as including in itself the projective realities of the sympotic vase-painting, from the point of view of cognitive patterns underlying it.