Thinking Space, Advancing Art: Cassirer and Crowther by Fell, Elena

Thinking Space, Advancing Art: Cassirer and Crowther (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443880695)

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Thinking Space, Advancing Art: Cassirer and Crowther by Fell, Elena

Thinking Space, Advancing Art: Cassirer and Crowther

$71.95
Thinking Space, Advancing Art: Cassirer and Crowther by Fell, Elena

Thinking Space, Advancing Art: Cassirer and Crowther

$71.95
Format: Hardcover
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Existing art theory is obsessed by theories of spectatorship based on concepts of signification derived from language. This book shows the weakness of such a perspective, and, as an alternative, argues that individual aesthetic transformations of pictorial structure change one's experience of space. In addition, it proves that this transformation is an ongoing process; pictorial art is progressively articulated through historical development, and is, therefore able to increase its cognitive and aesthetic scope. To support such a perspective, the book brings together ideas from Ernst Cassirer and Paul Crowther. Cassirer's philosophy of symbolic forms offers a profound way of understanding historical transformations in our experience of space, and Crowther's work on imagination and aesthetics shows how this can be extended to pictorial space and the uniqueness of pictorial art. By combining the two approaches, it is demonstrated how pictorial art extends our basic involvement in, and cognition of, space, and provides it with a special kind of aesthetic meaning.

Author: Elena Fell,Ioanna Kopsiafti
ISBN-10: 1443880698
ISBN-13: 9781443880695
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/24/2015
Pages: 145
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.80w x 0.70d
By Elena Fell
By Elena Fell
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Elena Fell received her Diploma in Philosophy from St. Petersburg State University and her doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Central Lancashire. She is Assistant Professor at Tomsk Polytechnic University, and is the author of Duration, Temporality, Self: Prospects for the Future of Bergsonism (Peter Lang, 2012). Ioanna Kopsiafti obtained her Master's degree in Art History at the University of St. Andrews, and her doctorate in art history and theory at the University of Oxford. She is Assistant Professor at Hellenic American University in Athens, Greece, and is also an Adjunct Professor at the Rome campus of Loyola University Chicago.

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