Action and Relation: Toward a New Theory of the Image.

The article explores theories of art and aesthetics related to social activism and political representation. Topics discussed include the interpretation of creative activism as a transformative experience by its audience, the contribution of contemporary art practices to the dissociation between art and philosophy, the pictorial elements and conflicting spaces observed in the abstract paintings of artist Wassily Kandinsky, and the phenomenology of action formulated by literary scholar Mikhail Bakhtin in his book "Toward a Philosophy of the Act."