Moving Imagination : Explorations of Gesture and Inner Movement /

To know anything in space (for instance, a line), I must draw it, and thus synthetically bring into being a determinate combination of the given manifold, so that the unity of this act is at the same time the unity of consciousness (as in the concept of a line); and it is through this unity of consc...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Preester, Helena De (Editor)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2013]
Series:Advances in consciousness research ; v. 89.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=578688
Table of Contents:
  • Prelim pages
  • Table of contents
  • Moving imagination
  • Bodily resonance
  • The moving body
  • Movement, gesture, and meaning
  • Achieved spontaneity and spectator's performative experience
  • The motor dimension of the actor-spectator relationship
  • The digital body in contemporary American cinema
  • Embodiment
  • Is gesture knowledge? A philosophical approach to the epistemology of musical gestures
  • Sound in film as an inner movement
  • Body English
  • The somatic in kinetic sculpture
  • Edgar Degas
  • Time lines
  • Styles of observation and embodiment
  • Cy Twombly
  • Pre-motor and motor activities in early medieval handwriting
  • The neurophenomenology of gesture in the art of Henri Michaux
  • Moving without moving
  • The "I cannot, but it can" of aesthetic perception
  • Name index
  • Subject index