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Seeing Things - Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts (Paperback, New)
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Seeing Things - Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts (Paperback, New)
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Seeing Things considers in detail the experience of perceiving
visual objects, from high art to everyday artefacts. It looks in
particular at the problems encountered with the ways we in Western
culture look upon the world and things, and encourages and argues
for ways to look and visualise the world more critically, broadly
and widely. Sight is one of the main ways we perceive and relate to
the world, and yet it is mostly assumed rather than actively
reflected on. Objects designated as art and the realm of aesthetics
attract some active attention and reflection, but most of the
visible world is ignored in the context of what is described here
as our 'ordinary blindness'. The author of this book is arguing
that the range of things we choose to see and value is arbitrary
and limited and the ways in which we relate to things and objects
are mostly crude and un-nuanced. It is also argued here that it is
desirable to consider more person-like relationships with all
manner of visibly perceived objects, from classical sculptures to
tennis rackets. If we begin to apply this person-like relationship
with things, we transgress the Western secular and religious
practice and belief that maintains that the realm of the
manufactured is 'dead' and so can be treated by humans exactly as
they wish without consideration. This person-like relationship does
not mean reanimating or re-sacramentalising the world, but
observation and exploration of the actual phenomenology of the
object should not be a lost cause. Professor Stephen Pattison is
currently Professor of Religion, Ethics and Practice at the
University of Birmingham. He is widely published, writing A
Critique of Pastoral Care, for SCM, 1988, 1993, 2000. He recently
held the prestigious position of Gifford Lecturer in 2007
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