The Brain-Eye: New Histories of Modern Painting - Softcover

Alliez, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783480688 ISBN 13: 9781783480685

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2015

Synopsis

English-language translation of a major work by French philosopher Eric Alliez, in which he offers a new perspective on critical problems in modern aesthetics.

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Review:

This amazingly erudite, visually sensitive, and philosophically innovative, post-phenomenological study offers multiple, rich perspectives on thinking in and through painting, as it interrogates five paradigmatic pathbreaking artists from Delacroix to Cezanne. Deploying innovative concepts of hallucination and the brain-eye, Alliez convincingly revises our thinking about color, atmosphere, diagram, seriality, and artists' ways of working. -- Gary Shapiro, Tucker-Boatwright Professor in the Humanities-Philosophy, University of Richmond Eric Alliez proposes a consummately erudite journey through modern painting, asking at each step of the way one crucial question: how does painting think? Not: how can we think the painting as a visual object? But rather: what force of thought moves through painting itself to constitute the visual, anterior to the objectivity of the painting as to the subjectivity of the viewer? The answer is kaleidoscopic: an adventure in philosophy through the vicissitudes of color. A major contribution to philosophy in its relation to art history and visual studies. --Brian Massumi, Professor of Critical Empiricism, The European Graduate School

About the Author:

Eric 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 Defaire l'image (2013). Jean-Clet Martin is former programme director at the College de France, 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1783480688
• ISBN 13: 9781783480685
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 472