Art and Phenomenology

Description

Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world, but is a world of its own’.

An outstanding series of chapters by an international group of contributors examine the following questions:

• Paul Klee and the body in art
• Colour and background in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of art
• Self-consciousness and seventeenth century painting
• Vermeer and Heidegger
• Philosophy and the painting of Rothko
• Embodiment in Renaissance art
• Sculpture, dance and phenomenology

Art and Phenomenology is essential reading for anyone interested in phenomenology, aesthetics, and visual culture.

Contents

Introduction, Mark Wrathall and Joseph D. Parry 1. Paul Klee and the Role of the Body in Motivating Perception, Mark Wrathall 2. Phenomenology and Aesthetics: or Why Art Matters, Steven Crowell 3. Objectivity and Self-Disclosedness: The Phenomenological Working of Art, Jeff Malpas 4. Horizon, Oscillation, Boundary: The Fichtean Phenomenological Power of Imagination in the Painting of Mark Rothko, ViolettaWaibel 5. Representing the Real: a Merleau-Pontean Account of Art and Experience from the Renaissance to New Media, Sean Dorrance Kelly 6. The Judgment of Adam: Self-Consciousness and Normative Orientation in Lucas Cranach’s Eden, Wayne Martin 7. Describing Reality or Painting a World?: Vermeer and Heidegger, Béatrice Han-Pile 8. Phenomenological History, Freedom, and Botticelli’s Cestello Annunciation, Joseph D. Parry 9. Notes for an Husserlian Philosophy of Art, John Brough Index

Related Subjects

1. Theory of Art
2. Aesthetics
3. Phenomenology