Merleau-Ponty and painting

dc.contributor.authorOlivier, Bert
dc.date.accessioned2010-12-09T12:22:32Z
dc.date.available2010-12-09T12:22:32Z
dc.date.created2010-11
dc.date.issued2001
dc.descriptionArticle digitised using: Suprascan 1000 RGB scanner, scanned at 400 dpi; 24-bit colour; 100% Image derivating - Software used: Adobe Photoshop CS3 - Image levels, crop, deskew Abbyy Fine Reader No.9 - Image manipulation + OCR Adobe Acrobat 9 (PDF)en_US
dc.description.abstractThis article takes as its point of departure the question whether, in an age when "artforms" such as multimedia "installations" - which combine visual motifs of all kinds with written texts - seem to be an adequate reflection of an overwhelmingly complex postmodern world, painting still has a right to exist as a distinct art. It is argued that this is indeed the case, and that the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty provides ample material to substantiate this claim. Briefly, this entails the latter's insight concerning the "perceptual dialogue" between painter and visible world, a dialogue which manifests itself in an evolving "style" - or a "coherent deformation" of visual norms - on the part of the painter. Significantly, this presupposes the ambiguity of the visible realm - an ambiguity that is appropriated in one direction or another by the painter's ongoing (equally visible) interpretation of the visually given world. The article concludes with a consideration of the work of a number of postmodern artists in the light of the guiding question, whether their art, as responses to a bewilderingly complex world, may be understood as the outcome of what Merleau-Ponty identifies as the "perceptual dialogue" between artist and world.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1719138en_US
dc.format.extent8 pagesen_US
dc.format.mediumPdfen_US
dc.identifier.citationOlivier, B 2001, 'Merleau-Ponty and painting.' South African Journal of Art History, vol. 16, pp. 139-146.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0258-3542
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/15406
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.rightsArt Historical Work Group of South Africaen_US
dc.subjectMerleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961en_US
dc.subjectPhenomenologyen_US
dc.subjectPerception (Philosophy)en_US
dc.subjectArt -- Philosophyen_US
dc.subjectArt -- Criticismen_US
dc.subjectArt -- South Africa -- 21st centuryen_US
dc.subject.lcshArt -- History
dc.subject.lcshArt and societyen
dc.subject.lcshVisual communication in arten
dc.subject.lcshPainting -- Themes, motivesen
dc.subject.lcshPainting -- Appreciationen
dc.subject.lcshPainting, Modern -- 21st centuryen
dc.subject.lcshPainting, South Africanen
dc.titleMerleau-Ponty and paintingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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