In a thorough examination of examples from painting, film, installation art and interactive video, and computer art, Van de Vall argues for a tactile and affective conception of reflection, linking philosophy and art. Looking at a Rembrandt self-portrait and navigating through an internet art work have in common that both types of work rely on a playful, rhythmically structured, sensuous and embodied reflexivity for the articulation of meaning. This sensuous dimension of playful reflexivity is just as important in philosophical thought, however, as the transcendental condition for genuine, open-ended reflection.
Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Lyotard and Deleuze on the one hand and on new-media theory on the other, Van de Vall develops a performative phenomenology of aesthetic reflection, visuality and visual art, in order to rethink art's ethical and political relevance in present-day digital-media culture.' - from book flap.
Includes a bibliography and an index.
Histories of Vision
Onsite
English
aesthetics,  art theory,  audience,  visual culture
2008
179
9780754640738
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monograph
Introduction
1 Space without Hiding Places: Merleau-Ponty's Discussion of Linear Perspective
2 Touching the Face: the Ethical Dimension of Visuality between Levinas and a Rembrandt Self-portrait
3 Between Battlefield and Play: on Art and Aesthetics in Visual Culture
4 Criticism from within: on Reflection and Aesthetic Feeling
5 The Mediation of Passibility: Art and Interactive Spectatorship
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