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affective aesthetics
art criticism methodology
Author_Renee van de Vall
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Clinical Practice
Critical Reflective Stance
Digital Interactive Art
Digital Visual Culture
embodied perception
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Ernst Van De Wetering
Extent Transformation
Hubert Damisch
Linear Perspective
Linear Perspective Painting
Merleau Ponty's Account
Merleau Ponty’s Account
new media theory
performative reflection in digital art
Phenomenological Aesthetics
phenomenological analysis
Philosophie Der Symbolischen Formen
Pornographic Gaze
Raphael's Sistine Madonna
Raphael’s Sistine Madonna
Reflective Judgement
Rembrandt's Oeuvre
Rembrandt's Self-portrait
Rembrandt’s Oeuvre
Rembrandt’s Self-portrait
Round Room
sensory engagement
Sistine Madonna
Techno Scientific Discourse
Van De Wetering
Van Gogh's Death
Van Gogh’s Death
Vice Versa
Visual Behaviour
Wild Perception
Product details
- ISBN 9780754640738
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Sep 2008
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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In At the Edges of Vision, Renée van de Vall re-examines the aesthetics of spectatorship in terms of new-media art and visual culture. The aesthetic experience of visual art has traditionally been described in terms of the distanced contemplation and critical interpretation of the work's form and representational content. Recent developments in installation, video and computer art have foregrounded the bodily and affective engagement of the spectator and, in retrospect, throw into question the model of spectatorial distance for more traditional art forms as well. But what does this development entail for art's potential for reflective, imaginative and experiential depth? Is art still capable of providing a critical counterpoint to the ubiquitous presence of sensational, yet short-lived media imagery when it speaks to the senses rather than to the mind? In a thorough examination of examples from painting, film, installation art and interactive video, and computer art, Van de Vall argues for a tactile and affective conception of reflection, linking philosophy and art. Looking at a Rembrandt self-portrait and navigating through an internet art work have in common that both types of work rely on a playful, rhythmically structured, sensuous and embodied reflexivity for the articulation of meaning. This sensuous dimension of playful reflexivity is just as important in philosophical thought, however, as the transcendental condition for genuine, open-ended reflection. Drawing on the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Lyotard and Deleuze on the one hand and on new-media theory on the other, Van de Vall develops a performative phenomenology of aesthetic reflection, visuality and visual art, in order to rethink art's ethical and political relevance in present-day digital-media culture.
Renée van de Vall Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts and Culture, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands.
