Skip to search
Skip to main content
Catalog
Help
Feedback
Your Account
Library Account
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Search History
Search in
Keyword
Title (keyword)
Author (keyword)
Subject (keyword)
Title starts with
Subject (browse)
Author (browse)
Author (sorted by title)
Call number (browse)
search for
Search
Advanced Search
Bookmarks
(
0
)
Princeton University Library Catalog
Start over
Cite
Send
to
SMS
Email
EndNote
RefWorks
RIS
Printer
Bookmark
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
Availability
Copies in the Library
Location
Call Number
Status
Location Service
Notes
Firestone Library - Stacks
BH151 .S74 2017
Browse related items
Request
Details
Subject(s)
Aesthetics, Modern
[Browse]
Art
—
Philosophy
[Browse]
Arts
—
History and criticism
[Browse]
Phenomenology
[Browse]
Summary note
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.
Show 1 more Contents items
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
Statement on language in description
Princeton University Library aims to describe library materials in a manner that is respectful to the individuals and communities who create, use, and are represented in the collections we manage.
Read more...
Other views
Staff view
Ask a Question
Suggest a Correction
Report Harmful Language
Supplementary Information