The literature of mediation is not merely confined to the creation of a bridge between two cultures or epochs, but it also suggests new interpretations, offers new readings and makes the supposedly known new. Starting from the outlook of some famous mediators like Diderot, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Predrag Matvejevitch, Jean Starobinski, Milan Kundera, Octavio Paz among others, the article reflects on the evolution of the aesthetics of the gaze and on the different possible points of view: the synoptic gaze of rationalistic aesthetics,
the close-up and therefore fragmented gaze of empiric aesthetics and finally the nomadic gaze of contemporary aesthetics, divided between panoramic and close-up view.
