Embodied Cognition, Kinaesthetic Knowledge, and Kinesic Imagination in Literature and Visual Arts

Embodied cognition, kinaesthetic knowledge, and kinesic imagination are central not only to acts of creation but also the reception artworks. This article substantiates this claim by focusing on sensorimotricity in art literature, presenting two sets analytical distinctions that pertain dynamics gesture movement. The first set distinctions—kinesis, kinaesthesia, kinetics, kinematics—and second set—timing, tempo, momentum—are used analyse literary descriptions visual depictions movements. is discussed part relation medieval drawings excerpts from different historical periods (in works Ovid, Shakespeare, Proust). focuses arts leads an analysis Bruegel's Fall Rebel Angels , while third presents a Apollo Daphne episode Ovid's Metamorphoses . A heightened attention cognitive processing features enhances role responsibility readers viewers ways which they grasp movement-based meanings formalized artists various cultures periods.