Volume 72 (2017), 10
Reflections
(Original title: Touching Matter in Art: Towards a ‘Matterist’ Aesthetic with Fra Angelico, Vermeer, Lucebert, De Bruyckere, and Moreau)
Filozofia, 72 (2017), 10, 825-833.Abstract
Drawing on examples of works of art by very diverse artists as Fra Angelico, Vermeer, Lucebert, De Bruyckere, and Moreau, I aim to show that the specific ways in which artworks yield aesthetic experiences cannot be properly understood without recourse to the peculiar (and all too often neglected) presence of matter in the work of art. In this paper I sketch the… Read more
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