ABSTRACT
In 1936 Heidegger introduced a concept of the gestalt into his own account of The Origin of the Work of Art. According to this account, the creation of a work of art concerns the bringing forth of the gestalt. This chapter begins with a short exposition of Heidegger's understanding of the essence of truth as un-concealment, because his concept of the gestalt grows out of his understanding of the essence of truth. In The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger breaks with the traditional aesthetical categories and develops his own view of the origin of art. The primary function of names consists of their demonstrative function; names show something. Heidegger also calls this projection of the truth in the gestalt "poetry". We can understand this when we recall the Greek origin of the word: "poiein is the 'bringing forth' of something in its presence, in the unconcealed".
