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This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being
or semblance, but with a concept of appearing. Appearing bespeaks
of the reality that all aesthetic objects share, however different
they may otherwise be. For Martin Seel, appearing plays its part
everywhere in the aesthetic realm, in all aesthetic activity. In
his book, Seel examines the existential and cultural meaning of
aesthetic experience. In doing so, he brings aesthetics and
philosophy of art together again, which in continental as well as
analytical thinking have been more and more separated in the recent
decades. Within Seel's framework, to apprehend things and events
with respect to how they appear momentarily and simultaneously to
our senses represents a genuine way for human beings to encounter
the world. The consciousness that emerges here is an
anthropologically central faculty. In perceiving the unfathomable
particularity of a sensuously given we gain insight into the
indeterminable of our lives. Attentiveness to what is appearing is
therefore at the same time attentiveness to ourselves. This is also
the case when works of art imagine past or future, probable or
improbable presences. Artworks develop their transgressive energy
from their presence as sense-catching forms. They bring about a
special presence in which a presentation of close or distant
presences comes about.
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The Arts of Cinema (Hardcover)
Martin Seel; Translated by Kizer S. Walker
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R3,036
R2,271
Discovery Miles 22 710
Save R765 (25%)
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In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to
the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In
nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the
cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples
from a diverse range of films-from Antonioni and Hitchcock to The
Searchers and The Bourne Supremacy-to demonstrate the many ways
this potential can be realized. Seel's analysis provides both a new
perspective on film as a comprehensive aesthetic experience and a
nuanced understanding of what the medium does to us once we are in
the cinema.
This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being
or semblance, but with a concept of appearing, Appearing bespeaks
of the reality that all aesthetic objects share, however different
they may otherwise be. For Martin Seel, appearing plays its part
everywhere in the aesthetic realm, in all aesthetic activity. In
his book, Seel examines the existential and cultural meaning of
aesthetic experience. In doing so, he brings aesthetics and
philosophy of art together again, which in continental as well as
analytical thinking have been more and more separated in the recent
decades. Within Seel' s framework, to apprehend things and events
with respect to how they appear momentarily and simultaneously to
our senses represents a genuine way for human beings to encounter
the world. The consciousness that emerges here is an
anthropologically central faculty. In perceiving the unfathomable
particularity of a sensuously given we gain insight into the
indeterminable of our lives. Attentiveness to what is appearing is
therefore at the same time attentiveness to ourselves. This is also
the case when works of art imagine past or future, probable or
improbable presences. Artworks develop their transgressive energy
from their presence as sense-catching forms. They bring about a
special presence in which a presentation of close or distant
presences comes about.
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The Arts of Cinema (Paperback)
Martin Seel; Translated by Kizer S. Walker
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R531
R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
Save R92 (17%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to
the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In
nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the
cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples
from a diverse range of films-from Antonioni and Hitchcock to The
Searchers and The Bourne Supremacy-to demonstrate the many ways
this potential can be realized. Seel's analysis provides both a new
perspective on film as a comprehensive aesthetic experience and a
nuanced understanding of what the medium does to us once we are in
the cinema.
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