Art and Phenomenology

<p>Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries <em>Art and Phenomenology</em> is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself showing how in the words of Merleau-Ponty ‘Painting does not imitate the world but is a world of its own’. </p><p>An outstanding series of chapters by an international group of contributors examine the following questions: </p><ul> <li>Paul Klee and the body in art </li> <li>colour and background in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of art </li> <li>self-consciousness and seventeenth-century painting </li> <li>Vermeer and Heidegger </li> <li>philosophy and the painting of Rothko </li> <li>embodiment in Renaissance art </li> <li>sculpture dance and phenomenology. </li> </ul><p><em>Art and Phenomenology</em> is essential reading for anyone interested in phenomenology aesthetics and visual culture. </p>