Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame)
Title | Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Crowther |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 2009-09-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804762147 |
The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.
How Pictures Complete Us
Title | How Pictures Complete Us PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Crowther |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-04-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780804798464 |
Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a relationship with the ultimate and completes us psychologically. Philosophers and theologians sometimes account for this as an effect of art, but How Pictures Complete Us distinguishes itself by revealing how this experience is embodied in pictorial structures and styles. Through detailed discussions of artworks from the Renaissance through postmodern times, Paul Crowther reappraises the entire scope of beauty and the sublime in the context of both representational and abstract art, offering unexpected insights into familiar phenomena such as ideal beauty, pictorial perspective, and what pictures are in the first place.
The Frame in Classical Art
Title | The Frame in Classical Art PDF eBook |
Author | Verity Platt |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 737 |
Release | 2017-04-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1316943275 |
The frames of classical art are often seen as marginal to the images that they surround. Traditional art history has tended to view framing devices as supplementary 'ornaments'. Likewise, classical archaeologists have often treated them as tools for taxonomic analysis. This book not only argues for the integral role of framing within Graeco-Roman art, but also explores the relationship between the frames of classical antiquity and those of more modern art and aesthetics. Contributors combine close formal analysis with more theoretical approaches: chapters examine framing devices across multiple media (including vase and fresco painting, relief and free-standing sculpture, mosaics, manuscripts and inscriptions), structuring analysis around the themes of 'framing pictorial space', 'framing bodies', 'framing the sacred' and 'framing texts'. The result is a new cultural history of framing - one that probes the sophisticated and playful ways in which frames could support, delimit, shape and even interrogate the images contained within.
The Phenomenology of Modern Art
Title | The Phenomenology of Modern Art PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Crowther |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 373 |
Release | 2012-05-03 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 144113607X |
As a philosophical approach, phenomenology is concerned with structure in how phenomena are experienced. The Phenomenology of Modern Art uses phenomenological insights to explain the significance of style in modern art, most notably in Impressionism, Expressionism, Cezanne and Cubism, Duchampian conceptualism and abstract art. Paul Crowther explores this thematic approach in a new way, addressing specific visual artworks and tendencies in detail and introduces a new methodology - post-analytic phenomenology. It is this more critical, post-analytic orientation that allows the book to utilise some unexpected phenomenological resources. Gilles Deleuze, rarely associated with phenomenology, in fact employs an overriding phenomenological orientation in his focus on modern art. Crowther uses Deleuze's important phenomenological insights as a starting point and goes on to develop arguments found in two other thinkers, Nietzsche and Merleau-Ponty, as well as addressing those figures and tendencies in relation to whom twentieth-century critical appropriations of Kant have been most influential. Accompanied by illustrations, the book offers the first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art.
The Off-Screen
Title | The Off-Screen PDF eBook |
Author | Eyal Peretz |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 272 |
Release | 2017-03-21 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1503601617 |
From the Renaissance on, a new concept of the frame becomes crucial to a range of artistic media, which in turn are organized around and fascinated by this frame. The frame decontextualizes, cutting everything that is within it from the continuity of the world and creating a realm we understand as the realm of fiction. The modern theatrical stage, framed paintings, the novel, the cinematic screen—all present us with such framed-off zones. Naturally, the frame creates a separation between inside and out. But, as this book argues, what is outside the frame, what is offstage, or off screen, remains particularly mysterious. It constitutes the primary enigma of the work of art in the modern age. It is to the historical and conceptual significance of this "off" that this book is dedicated. By focusing on what is outside the frame of a work of art, it offers a comprehensive theory of film, a concise history of American cinema from D.W. Griffith to Quentin Tarantino, and a reflection on the place and significance of film within the arts of modernity in general.
Phenomenology of Perception
Title | Phenomenology of Perception PDF eBook |
Author | Maurice Merleau-Ponty |
Publisher | Motilal Banarsidass Publishe |
Total Pages | 494 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9788120813465 |
Buddhist philosophy of Anicca (impermanence), Dukkha (suffering), and
Phenomenologies of Art and Vision
Title | Phenomenologies of Art and Vision PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Crowther |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 209 |
Release | 2013-03-28 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1441119736 |
An original study of the intrinsic significance of art, drawing on ideas, thinkers and approaches from phenomenology and analytic aesthetics.