How Pictures Complete Us: The Beautiful, the Sublime, and the Divine
Autor Paul Crowtheren Limba Engleză Paperback – 12 apr 2016
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780804798464
ISBN-10: 080479846X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
ISBN-10: 080479846X
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press
Colecția Stanford University Press
Recenzii
"Paul Crowther's vital contribution to the burgeoning field of theological aesthetics analyzes what exactly the experience of transcendence is and how it takes place through the mediation of visual art. At once a complement and a challenge to contemporary scholarship, his book is a must-read for anyone attempting to understand the visual arts as a humanizing endeavor."—Sandra Lynne Shapshay, Indiana University Bloomington
"Bold, original, speculative, and striking a good balance between analytical clarity and phenomenological perceptiveness, this book sets forth an important and exhilarating idea that it explores in a philosophically sophisticated manner."—Richard Viladesau, Fordham University
Notă biografică
Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His many books include Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) (Stanford, 2009).
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The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence–a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God