| The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting Contributor(s): Alliez, Eric (Author), Martin, Jean-Clet (With), MacKay, Robin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 178348067X ISBN-13: 9781783480678 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $185.13 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Critical Theory - Art | Criticism & Theory - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 759.05 |
| LCCN: 2015030311 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.55 lbs) 472 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A detailed and inventive study of the thinking at work in modern painting, drawing on a formidable body of scholarly evidence to challenge modernist and phenomenological readings of art history, The Brain-Eye presents a series of interlinked 'case studies' in which philosophical thought encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by 'painter-researchers.' Rather than outlining a new 'philosophy of art, ' The Brain-Eye details the singular problems pursued by each of its protagonists. Striking readings of the oeuvres of Delacroix, Seurat, Manet, Gauguin, and C zanne recount the plural histories of artists who worked to free the differential forces of colour, discovered by Goethe in his Colour Theory, in the name of a "true hallucination" and of a logic proper to the Visual. A rigorous renewal of the philosophical thinking of visual art, The Brain-Eye explores the complex relations between concept and sensation, theory and practice, the discursive and the visual, and draws out the political and philosophical stakes of the aesthetic revolution in modern painting. |
Contributor Bio(s): Martin, Jean-Clet: - Jean-Clet Martin is former programme director at the College International de Philosophie, Paris.MacKay, Robin: - Robin Mackay is director of Urbanomic and editor of its journal, Collapse. He has translated a number of works of French philosophy, including Alain Badiou's Number and Numbers, Francois Laruelle's The Concept of Non-Philosophy and Anti-Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux's The Number and the Siren.Alliez, Eric: - Éric Alliez is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at Kingston University, London, and Professor of Aesthetics at Paris. |