Phenomenologies of art and vision : a post-analytic turn / Paul Crowther.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Crowther, Paul, author.

Series:

Bloomsbury Studies in Philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Phenomenology and art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (209 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Continuum International Publishing Group, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary discussions of the image like to emphasize art's societal functions. Few studies come close to answering why pictures and sculptures fascinate and intrigue regardless of any practical functions they might serve. In this original, thought-provoking study, Paul Crowther reveals the intrinsic significance of pictures and sculptures. To address the question of how painting becomes an art, Crowther uses the analytic philosophy of Richard Wollheim as a starting point. But to sufficiently answer the question, he makes an important link to a tradition much more successful in giving voice to the deeper ontology of visual art - existential phenomenology. The result is a work that demonstrates the reciprocal relationship between phenomenology and analytic aesthetics. To expand its ontological scope and solve the problem of expression, analytic aesthetics needs phenomenology; while to develop a sustained, critically balanced, and intellectually available ontology, phenomenology needs the discursive force and lucidity of analytic philosophy. This convincing case for a post-analytic phenomenology of art is an important advancement of contemporary discussions of the philosophy of art

Contents:

Painting as an art: Wollheim and the subjective dimension

Abstract art and transperceptual space: Wolheim, and beyond

Truth in art: Heidegger against contextualism

Space, place, and sculpture: Heidegger's pathways

Vision in being: Merleau-Ponty and the depths of painting

Subjectivity, the gaze, and the picture: developing Lacan

Dimensions in time: Dufrenne's phenomenology of pictorial art

Conclusion: a preface to post-analytic phenomenology.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781472545800

147254580X

9781283950671

1283950677

9781441130679

1441130675

OCLC:

827209791