The Phenomenology of Modern Art

The Phenomenology of Modern Art
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 301
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ISBN-10 : 9781441115065
ISBN-13 : 1441115064
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Book Synopsis The Phenomenology of Modern Art by : Paul Crowther

Download or read book The Phenomenology of Modern Art written by Paul Crowther and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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