The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation
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"By the unique application of the phenomenological notion of being-in-the-world, he is able to expand and clarify people's understanding of the situations in which transactions with art take place, thus shedding light on questions of interpretation, artistic ambiguity, aesthetic attitude, and the definition of artworks." R.M. Davis, Albion College, Choice
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Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they are able to emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to pictorial art, demonstrating that paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. Emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, what we visualize in paintings, he argues, is not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting in relation to methodological assumptions and claims in analytic aesthetics as well as in contemporary schools of thought, particularly Marxist, feminist, and deconstructionist.
The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation,Alan Paskow,Cambridge University Press,0521828333,Aesthetics,Art & Art Instruction,General,Painting,Philosophy,Reality in art,Reality in literature,Philosophy / General,Theory of art
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