Thinking space, advancing art : Cassirer and Crowther / by Elena Fell, Ioanna Kopsiafti.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Fell, Elena, author.
• Kopsiafti, Ioanna, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Crowther, Paul.
• Space (Art).
• Pictures--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (143 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015.

Summary:

Existing art theory is obsessed by theories of spectatorship based on concepts of signification derived from language. This book shows the weakness of such a perspective, and, as an alternative, argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one's experience of space. In addition, it proves that this transformation is an ongoing process; pictorial art is progressively articulated through historical development, and is, therefore able to increase its cognitive and aesthetic scope. To support such a perspective, the book brings together ideas from Ernst Cassirer a

Notes:

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references.
• Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-8211-9

OCLC:

922704006