Abstract

The light from any works of art from? This issue touches the problem of art precinct. In Western society, from the Park plans to pull ahead, "light" means the specified brightness , but also refers to knowledge and wisdom, and management of both moral and intellectual double value. Work of the "light" not only come from art itself, and works derived from the production of scientific instruments. Aesthetic domain, technology domain, cognitive domain so intertwined, mixed one. Photography is a typical Examples. Born from the light, with scientific instruments made ​​with the image of the automatic nature , indicative , memory , reproducibility and other characteristics, a unique way to perceive the world . Born in the early nineteenth century the "new image" To ensure the quality of its unique beauty, In order to set off an "art" and "non - art" bounded domain dispute. From where does artistic work's light come? At once the question poses the problem of art boundaries. In Western societies, heir to Plato, the word "lumière" is both equivalent to clearness , to knowledge and to wisdom. It carries moral and intellectual values. Moreover, "lumière" is not only coming from the artistic work itself but also from its technical devices. So aesthetic, technical, cognitive spheres all blend together. The example of photography is emblematic: its automaticity, its indexicality, its reproductibility, its memorizibility lead the way to a specific knowledge of the world. The «new picture», born at the beginning of the XIXth century, quarrelled the boundaries between "art" and "non- art "while ensuring its specific aesthetic qualities