By Joseph D. Parry
Philosophy of paintings is ordinarily interested in the definition, appreciation and price of artwork. via a detailed exam of paintings from contemporary centuries, Art and Phenomenology is likely one of the first books to discover visible artwork as a style of experiencing the area itself, exhibiting how within the phrases of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting doesn't imitate the realm, yet is an international of its own’.
An extraordinary sequence of chapters by way of a global team of participants study the next questions:
- Paul Klee and the physique in paintings
- colour and heritage in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of artwork
- self-consciousness and seventeenth-century portray
- Vermeer and Heidegger
- philosophy and the portray of Rothko
- embodiment in Renaissance paintings
- sculpture, dance and phenomenology.
Art and Phenomenology is vital examining for somebody drawn to phenomenology, aesthetics, and visible tradition.
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