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By Eric Alliez,Robin Mackay,Jean-Clet Martin

ISBN-10: 178348067X

ISBN-13: 9781783480678

ISBN-10: 1783480688

ISBN-13: 9781783480685

A exact and creative research of the pondering at paintings in glossy portray, drawing on an impressive physique of scholarly proof to problem modernist and phenomenological readings of paintings heritage, The Brain-Eye presents a sequence of interlinked ‘case reviews’ within which philosophical proposal encounters the hallucinatory sensations unleashed by means of ‘painter-researchers.’
Rather than outlining a brand new ‘philosophy of art,’ The Brain-Eye information the singular difficulties pursued via each one of its protagonists. awesome readings of the oeuvres of Delacroix, Seurat, Manet, Gauguin, and Cézanne recount the plural histories of artists who labored to unfastened the differential forces of color, chanced on through Goethe in his Colour Theory, within the identify of a “true hallucination” and of a common sense right to the Visual.
A rigorous renewal of the philosophical considering visible artwork, The Brain-Eye explores the advanced family members among suggestion and sensation, concept and perform, the discursive and the visible, and attracts out the political and philosophical stakes of the cultured revolution in sleek painting.

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