The perfect spectator : the experience of the art work and reception aesthetics / Janneke Wesseling.
Material type: TextSeries: Vis--̉vis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)Publication details: Amsterdam : Valiz, 2017. Description: 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 9789080818507; 908081850XSubject(s): Art -- PsychologyLOC classification: N71 | .W449 2017Summary: What happens between a spectator and an art work? How do we experience 'meaning' in an art work? How can the process of interpretation be understood and articulated? To address these questions, the author explores the field of reception aesthetics, with its central premise that the contemplation of art is a matter of interaction between the art work and the observer. The research is focused on unravelling and problematising the theoretical terminology of the interaction between art work and spectator, deriving from reception aesthetics as well as from hermeneutics and phenomenology, with the aim of building a new theoretical foundation for this terminology. Additionally, different concepts of spectatorship are extensively discussed. 'I believe it is more productive to research how the art work works or signifies than what it shows or might signify. This 'how' reveals itself mainly in the performative act of experiencing the work.' This book addresses scholars and students in the fields of art history, aesthetics and visual and cultural studies, as well as artists and art students, and all those art spectators who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the experience of art.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Books | Jameel Library | N71 .W449 2017 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 13425 |
Browsing Jameel Library shelves Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)
No cover image available | ||||||||
N70 .M3348 2017 Power of material/politics of materiality | N70 .Y37 2015 creativity never sleeps : 1295 days, 125 projects, 130 artists, 4 buildings. | N71 .P395 2018 Your art will save your life / | N71 .W449 2017 The perfect spectator : | N72.A75 I84 2015 ISEA 2014 : | N72.E8 E845 2015 Ethics / | N72.F45 A78 2018 The art of feminism : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-247) and index.
What happens between a spectator and an art work? How do we experience 'meaning' in an art work? How can the process of interpretation be understood and articulated? To address these questions, the author explores the field of reception aesthetics, with its central premise that the contemplation of art is a matter of interaction between the art work and the observer. The research is focused on unravelling and problematising the theoretical terminology of the interaction between art work and spectator, deriving from reception aesthetics as well as from hermeneutics and phenomenology, with the aim of building a new theoretical foundation for this terminology. Additionally, different concepts of spectatorship are extensively discussed. 'I believe it is more productive to research how the art work works or signifies than what it shows or might signify. This 'how' reveals itself mainly in the performative act of experiencing the work.' This book addresses scholars and students in the fields of art history, aesthetics and visual and cultural studies, as well as artists and art students, and all those art spectators who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the experience of art.
There are no comments on this title.