Joseph D. Parry - Art and Phenomenology
Published: 2011 | ISBN: 0415774500, 0415774497 | PDF | 240 pages | 4 MB

Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology 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’. 
An outstanding series of chapters by an international group of contributors examine the following questions: 
Paul Klee and the body in art 
colour and background in Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of art 
self-consciousness and seventeenth-century painting 
Vermeer and Heidegger 
philosophy and the painting of Rothko 
embodiment in Renaissance art 
sculpture, dance and phenomenology. 
Art and Phenomenology is essential reading for anyone interested in phenomenology, aesthetics, and visual culture.