Investigations Into the Phenomenology and the Ontology of the Work of Art : What are Artworks and How Do We Experience Them? / edited by Peer F. Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bundgaard, Peer F., Editor.

Contributor:

Bundgaard, Peer F., Editor.

Stjernfelt, Frederik., Editor.

Series:

Contributions to Phenomenology, In Cooperation with The Center for Advanced Research in Phenomenology, 0923-9545 ; 81

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Phenomenology.

Cognitive psychology.

Aesthetics.

Cognitive Psychology.

Local Subjects:

Phenomenology.

Cognitive Psychology.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 264 pages) : colour illustrations; digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed. 2015.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This book investigates the nature of aesthetic experience and aesthetic objects. Written by leading philosophers, psychologists, literary scholars and semioticians, the book addresses two intertwined issues. The first is related to the phenomenology of aesthetic experience: The understanding of how human beings respond to artworks, how we process linguistic or visual information, and what properties in artworks trigger aesthetic experiences. The examination of the properties of aesthetic experience reveals essential aspects of our perceptual, cognitive, and semiotic capacities. The second issue studied in this volume is related to the ontology of the work of art: Written or visual artworks are a specific type of objects, containing particular kinds of representation which elicit a particular kind of experience. The research question explored is: What properties in artful objects trigger this type of experience, and what characterizes representation in written and visual artworks? The volume sets the scene for state-of-the-art inquiries in the intersection between the psychology and ontology of art. The investigations of the relation between the properties of artworks and the characteristics of aesthetic experience increase our insight into what art is. In addition, they shed light on essential properties of human meaning-making in general.

Contents:

Introduction: Peer F. Bundgaard

Temporal aspects of literary reading; David S. Miall

Memory and mental states in the appreciation of literature; Marisa Bortolussi and Peter Dixon

Temporal conflict in the reading experience; Cathrine Kietz

The aesthetic experience with visual art “at first glance”; Paul J. Locher

What is a surface? In the real world? And pictures?; John M. Kennedy and Marta Wnuczko

The idiosyncrasy of beauty: Aesthetic universals and the diversity of taste; Patrick Colm Hogan

Why we are not all novelists; Shaun Gallagher

Aesthetic relationship, cognition, and the pleasures of art; Jean-Marie Schaeffer

More seeing-in: surface seeing, design seeing, and meaning seeing in pictures; Peer F. Bundgaard

Depiction; John Hyman

Green war banners in central Copenhagen: A recent political struggle over interpretation — and some implications for art interpretation as such; Frederik Stjernfelt

The appropriation of the work of art as a semiotic act; Francis Édeline and Jean-Marie Klinkenberg

Sculpture, diagram, and language in the artwork of Joseph Beuys; Wolfgang Wildgen. Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319140902 (ebook)

OCLC:

1231610994