Beautiful, bright, and blinding : phenomenological aesthetics and the life of art / H. Peter Steeves.

Author
Steeves, H. Peter [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2017]
Description
xi, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

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    Through a careful analysis of concrete examples taken from everyday experience and culture, Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding develops a straightforward and powerful aesthetic methodology founded on a phenomenological approach to experience-one that investigates how consciousness engages with the world and thus what it means to take such things as tastes, images, sounds, and even a Hie itself as art. H. Peter Steeves begins by exploring what it means to see, and considers how disruptions of sight can help us rethink how perception works. Engaging the work of Derrida, Heidegger, and Husserl, he uses these insights about "seeing" to undertake a systematic phenomenological investigation of how we perceive and process a range of aesthetic objects, including the paintings of Arshile Gorky, the films of Michael Haneke, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, zombie films, The Simpsons, the performance art of Rachel Rosenthal and Andy Kaufman, and even, vegan hot dogs. Refusing hierarchical distinctions between high and low art, Steeves argues that we must conceptualize the whole of human experience as aesthetic: art is lived, and living is an art. Book jacket.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-252) and index.
    Contents
    • Section 1. Painting, seeing, concepts. Gone, missing ; Arshile's heel, Gorky's line ; "You are here" and not here: the concept of conceptual art
    • Section 2. Moving pictures and memory. The doubling of death in the films of Michael Haneke ; Yep, Gaston's gay: Disney and the beauty of a beastly love ; And say the zombie responded? or, How I learned to stop living and unlove the undead
    • Section 3. Other animal others. The man who mistook his meal for a hot dog ; Rachel Rosenthal was an animal
    • Section 4. Laughing beyond modernity. "It's just a bunch of stuff that happened": The Simpsons and the possibility of postmodern comedy ; Quantum Andy.
    Other title(s)
    Phenomenological aesthetics and the life of art
    ISBN
    • 9781438466538 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    • 1438466536 (hardcover : alkaline paper)
    LCCN
    2016047188
    OCLC
    987632537
    Other standard number
    • 40027622858
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