This book provides a unique, philosophical interpretation of a
significant twentieth-century painter - Wassily Kandinsky. Michel
Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth
century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around
the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of
life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy develops a
conception of life as an immediate feeling of one's own
living."Seeing the Invisible" marks Henry's most sustained
engagement in the field of aesthetics. Through an analysis of the
life and works of Wassily Kandinsky, Henry uncovers the
philosophical significance of Kandinsky's revolution in painting:
that abstract art reveals the invisible essence of life. Henry
shows that Kandinsky separates colour and line from the constraints
of visible form and, in so doing, conveys the invisible intensity
of life - a force rooted in the corporeity and pathos of all living
beings. More than just a study of art history, this book presents
Kandinsky as an artist who is engaged in the project of painting
the invisible and thus offers invaluable methodological clues for
Henry's own phenomenology of the invisible.
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