Framing Consciousness in Art: Transcultural Perspectives (Hardcover)

"Framing Consciousness in Art" examines how the conscious mind enacts and processes the frame that both surrounds the work of art yet is also shown as an element inside its space. These 'frames-in-frames' may be seen in works by Teniers, Vela zquez, Vermeer, Degas, Rodin, and Cartier-Bresson and in the films of Alfred Hitchcock and Bun uel. The book also deals with framing in a variety of cultural contexts: Indian, Chinese and African, going beyond Euro-American formalist and aesthetic concerns which dominate critical theories of the frame. "Framing Consciousness in Art "shows how the frames-in-frames in these different contexts question notions of vision and representation, linear time, conventional spatial coordinates, binaries of 'internal' consciousness and 'external' world, subject and object, and the precise anatomy of mental states by which we are meant to carve up the territory of consciousness. The phenomenological experience of art is certainly as important as the folk psychology which scientists and philosophers use to taxonomise ordinary first-person modes of subjectivity. Yet art excels in configuring the visual field in order to articulate and sustain a complex network of higher-order thoughts structuring art and consciousness.

General

Imprint:	Editions Rodopi B.V.
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 20
Release date:	2009
First published:	2009
Authors:	Gregory Minissale
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	392
ISBN-13:	978-90-420-2581-3
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > General Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	90-420-2581-6
Barcode:	9789042025813

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