TY  - GEN
T1  - Merleau-Ponty and the art of perception
A2  - Davis, Duane (Duane H.)
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 2016
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_ocn944248903
AB  - This collection of essays brings together diverse but interrelated perspectives on art and perception based on the philosophy of Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Although Merleau-Ponty focused almost exclusively on painting in his writings on aesthetics, this collection also considers poetry, literary works, theater, and relationships between art and science. In addition to philosophers, the contributors include a painter, a photographer, a musicologist, and an architect. This widened scope offers important philosophical benefits, testing and providing evidence for the empirical applicability of Merleau-Ponty's aesthetic writings. The central argument is that for Merleau-Ponty the account of perception is also an account of art and vice versa. In the philosopher's writings, art and perception thus intertwine necessarily rather than contingently such that they can only be distinguished by abstraction. As a result, his account of perception and his account of art are organic, interdependent, and dynamic. The contributors examine various aspects of this intertwining across different artistic media, each ingeniously revealing an original perspective on this intertwining.
CN  - B2430.M3764 M46823 2016eb
SN  - 9781438459608
SN  - 1438459602
SN  - 9781438459592
SN  - 1438459599
KW  - Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, : 1908-1961.
KW  - Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, : 1908-1961
KW  - Perception (Philosophy)
KW  - Art : Philosophy.
KW  - Perception (Philosophie)
KW  - Art : Philosophie.
KW  - perception.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : Epistemology.
KW  - Art : Philosophy
ER  -