Seeing Things : Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts
Language: English
Published by SCM Press, London, 2007
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- Softcover
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Cover gently rubbed and bumped. Slight page tanning, but text is otherwise clean and unmarked. A good used copy without significant flaws. Publisher's note: Gifford Lectures series, 2007 Seeing Things is a highly original book that will have appeal across humanity departments including visual studies, theology, art history, sociology, anthropology and ethics. The book considers in detail, the experience of perceiving visual objects, from high art to everyday artefacts. It looks in particular at the problems encountered with the ways we in Western culture look upon the world and things, and encourages and argues for ways to look and visualise the world more critically, broadly and widely. Sight is one of the main ways we perceive and relate to the world, and yet it is mostly assumed rather than actively reflected on. Objects designated as art and the realm of aesthetics attract some active attention and reflection, but most of the visible world is ignored in the context of what Pattison describes as our ordinary blindness (TM). The book argues that the range of things we choose to see and value is arbitrary and limited and the ways in which we relate to things and objects are mostly crude and un-nuanced. Pattison argues that it is desirable to consider more person-like relationships with all manner of visibly perceived objects, from classical sculptures to tennis rackets. If we begin to apply this person-like relationship with things, we transgress the Western secular and religious practice and belief that maintains that the realm of the manufactured is dead (TM) and so can be treated by humans exactly as they wish without consideration. Pattison argues that this person-like relationship does not mean re-animating or re-sacramentalising the world, rather he argues for observation and exploration of the actual phenomenology of the object. Size: 23.3 x 15.4 x 2.5 cm. xi, 292 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Religion & Theology; Visual perception; Aesthetics -- Religious aspects; Material culture -- Religious aspects; ISBN: 033404149X. ISBN/EAN: 9780334041498. Add. Inventory No: 250903RE5453.…
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- Title
- Seeing Things : Deepening Relations with Visual Artefacts
- Author
- Stephen Pattison
- Publisher
- SCM Press, London
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Softcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 033404149X
- ISBN 13
- 9780334041498
- Edition
- First Edition.
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- Religion & Theology
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