By Norman Bryson
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Its migratory existence might never be known if it were not for the traces it leaves behind: the outline, in ochre and black, found in a cave; the painted canvases of the West. It is within this blind spot of culture's vision that the image is fashioned, and in the strangeness of the traces left behind by the natural attitude, the relativity of experience within differing social formations stands out in stark relief: no single Essential Copy can ever be made, for each strange trace left behind by the habitus was, relative to its social formation, itself an Essential Copy already.
Less pessimistically, it must be said that the present impasse displays all the characteristics of transition. The two traditions of stylistics and of iconology, developed in conditions of mutual separation (which in England find concrete expression in the institutional separation of 'the Warburg' from 'the Courtauld'), imminently converge upon the entity each has been forced to ignore: the painting as sign. The weakness here is symmetrical. Stylistics on its own is committed to a morphological approach that denies or brackets out the semantic dimension of the image: iconology on its own tends to disregard the materiality of painting practice; only in a 'combined analysis' giving equal consideration to 'signifier' and 'signified' within the painterly sign can this structural and self-paralysing weakness be overcome.
The process of testing through systematic attempts at refutation therefore constitutes the central activity of science. The propositions will never produce a perfect map or model of the universe and can never transcend their provisional status; but this should not deter science from continually producing provisional statements about the universe, or from building on the solid foundation of the falsifiable hypothesis. Step by step, the Popperian arguments are transported by Gombrich from science to art.