Image as varying-dynamic multitude

The author of the article sets the goal of proposing a hypothetic model of image as a varying-dynamic multitude and making a certain systematization of fixed regularities of organization and historical functioning of image. One of the key points of the suggested model is its interval character, or ''zoneness'' of image. In the framework of topical synergetic paradigm it can be seen as a general principle of life opposite to the discreteness and found in many spheres both connected with art or not. The property of ''zoneness'' is based on the presence of the following characteristics in a certain functioning system: 1) variety - a potential of changing in space (the potential of creating a multitude of variations, existing simultaneously and having common generic properties), 2) dynamics - potential of changes in time (potential of growth or deformations progressing sequentially and having no connection with the main generic properties). Image as a functioning system has the following properties, forming the property of ''zoneness'' (according to the given model): 1) variety revealing out of time as a multitude of authors' interpretations of image in different spheres of art; 2) dynamics deflecting the being of image in time, i.e., the set of interpretations of each existing author's treatment and accumulation (or deformation) of meanings that is determined by the changes in the perceiving person's outlook depending on the epoch. Variety and dynamics provide changeable constituents of image; the changeability admits variants of treatments and interpretations and is the initial condition of ''zoneness'' as the property of image. But the system possessing the changeable constituents must have a certain constant core, in which the actions of the variability take place still allowing to retain specific traits of the system. The author believes the constant components to be the phenomena of emotivity and an integral mental set: 1) emotivity. The category of emotivity is understood as a lingual incarnation of the psychological property of emotionality. Emotivity is needed in our model as an integral factor of uniting expressive means into an organic unity of image. 2) integral mental set. In our model the notion of the set plays the role of the integrative factor of various productive minds addressing to one and the same image (e.g., author of literary work- librettist - composer - director - singer - listener, etc.). Generally speaking, the article frames the hypothesis of the model of image as a varying-dynamic multitude determined by properties of ''zoneness'' and found in many spheres of art, creative activity and human life on the whole.

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