Eric Alliez

The Brain-Eye (eBook, PDF)

New Histories of Modern Painting
Übersetzer: Mackay, Robin

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 Cézanne 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881872144
• Artikelnr.: 74846630

Autorenporträt

Éric Alliez is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at Kingston University, London, and Professor of Aesthetics at Paris 8. His many publications in both English and French include The Signature of the World (2004), La Pensee-Matisse (2005) and Défaire l'image (2013).

Jean-Clet Martin is former programme director at the College International de Philosophie, Paris.

Robin Mackay, the translator, 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-Photography and Anti-Badiou and Quentin Meillasoux's The Number and the Siren.

Inhaltsangabe

Translator's Preface
Epigraph
Note to the Viewer-Reader
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: 19 June 1799-The Goethe-Transformation
Chapter 2: Delacroix and the Massacre of Painting
Chapter 3. On the New Path of the Contemporary: The Manet Plane
Chapter 4. Grey Times on La Grande Jatte (The Extraterrestrial
Seurat
The Machine-Eye)
Chapter 5. Gauguin, or the Eye of the Earth
Chapter 6. Ten Variations on Cézanne's Concentric Eye
List of Works Studied
Bibliography
Index of Names