The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation
Alan Paskow, "The Paradoxes of Art: A Phenomenological Investigation"
English | ISBN: 0521733189 | 2008 | 272 pages | PDF | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 0521733189 | 2008 | 272 pages | PDF | 8 MB
In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to painting, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. As emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, paintings, he argues, are not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to the experience of painting in relation to contemporary schools of thought, particularly Marxist, feminist, and deconstructionist.