Picturing mind : paradox, indeterminacy and consciousness in art & poetry /

In this book the author takes an unusual multi-disciplinary approach to debates about contemporary art and poetry, ideas about the mind and its representations, and theories of knowledge and being. Arts practices are considered as enactments of mind and as transformative modes of consciousness. Idea...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Danvers, John
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2006.
Series:Consciousness, literature & the arts ; 3.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=160087
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Part 1: Introduction
  • an opening, an entering; Part 2: The knowing body: art as an integrative process of cognition; Part 3: Interrogating appearances: being, seeing & showing; Part 4: The mutuality of existence: drawing, emptiness & presence; Part 5: Picturing mind
  • writing being; Part 6: The self as open-work: permeability, incompleteness & revisibility; Part 7: Mind, the real & the other; Part 8: Where we are: locus of mind-in-the-world; Part 9: The! the One & the Many: mysticism, art & poetry.