Play from (Behind) the Mirror: From Mimesis to the Author’s Re-Creation in Selected Works by Sylvia Plath, Vlado Gotovac, and Nam June Paik
Questioning the mimetic character of art, on the one hand, and the power and limits of creative imagination, i.e., the author’s creation using words and images, on the other, this paper aims to show how, in selected literary and video artworks, the authors use the motif and ‘the mechanism’ of the mirror to – regardless …