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Overview"Through a careful analysis of concrete examples taken from everyday experience and culture, Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding develops a straightforward and powerful aesthetic methodology founded on a phenomenological approach to experience—one that investigates how consciousness engages with the world and thus what it means to take such things as tastes, images, sounds, and even a life itself as art. H. Peter Steeves begins by exploring what it means to see, and considers how disruptions of sight can help us rethink how perception works. Engaging the work of Derrida, Heidegger, and Husserl, he uses these insights about ""seeing"" to undertake a systematic phenomenological investigation of how we perceive and process a range of aesthetic objects, including the paintings of Arshile Gorky, the films of Michael Haneke, Disney's Beauty and the Beast, zombie films, The Simpsons, the performance art of Rachel Rosenthal and Andy Kaufman, and even vegan hot dogs. Refusing hierarchical distinctions between high and low art, Steeves argues that we must conceptualize the whole of human experience as aesthetic: art is lived, and living is an art." Full Product DetailsAuthor: H. Peter SteevesPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438466545ISBN 10: 1438466544 Pages: 270 Publication Date: 02 July 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Section 1. Painting, Seeing, Concepts 1. Gone, Missing 2. Arshile’s Heel, Gorky’s Line 3. “You Are Here” and Not Here: The Concept of Conceptual Art Section 2. Moving Pictures and Memory 4. The Doubling of Death in the Films of Michael Haneke 5. Yep, Gaston’s Gay: Disney and the Beauty of a Beastly Love 6. And Say the Zombie Responded? or, How I Learned to Stop Living and Unlove the Undead Section 3. Other Animal Others 7. The Man Who Mistook His Meal for a Hot Dog 8. Rachel Rosenthal Was an Animal Section 4. Laughing Beyond Modernity 9. “It’s Just a Bunch of Stuff that Happened”: The Simpsons and the Possibility of Postmodern Comedy 10. Quantum Andy Notes IndexReviews...[Steeves] provides rich, coherent, and thought provoking analyses of the deep continuity between art and life. He explores complex ideas and experiences in a highly readable way, examining them from multiple perspectives and engaging the reader's imaginative and critical capacities. Beautiful, Bright, and Blinding will certainly merit multiple readings and provoke discussion. - Phenomenology & Practice ...Steeves guides us through an enlightening, entertaining, accessible, and intelligent study of the life of art that never leaves behind the human element that each of us brings to the banquet ... [he] has produced an objectively beautiful and fascinating book, every bit as artistic as the objects we see through its bright and illuminating lens. - Popular Culture Review This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent phenomenologist of culture. It's extremely accessible, illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being philosophically probing. - David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction ...Steeves guides us through an enlightening, entertaining, accessible, and intelligent study of the life of art that never leaves behind the human element that each of us brings to the banquet ... [he] has produced an objectively beautiful and fascinating book, every bit as artistic as the objects we see through its bright and illuminating lens. - Popular Culture Review This is a brilliant new contribution by our preeminent phenomenologist of culture. It's extremely accessible, illuminating, original, and sophisticated while being philosophically probing. - David Wood, author of The Step Back: Ethics and Politics after Deconstruction Author InformationH. Peter Steeves is Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the author of The Things Themselves: Phenomenology and the Return to the Everyday and the editor of Animal Others: On Ethics, Ontology, and Animal Life, both also published by SUNY Press. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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