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The role of the viewer in art and film theory revolves around a theatrical concept of the spectacle. This title takes a radically different approach to this emancipation. Beginning by asking what we mean by political art or the politics of art, it looks at what the tradition of …
Art and phenomenology
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Philosophy of art is traditionally concerned with the definition, appreciation and value of art. Through a close examination of art from recent centuries, Art and Phenomenology is one of the first books to explore visual art as a mode of experiencing the world itself, showing ho…
Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly pa…
