Merleau-Ponty and painting
dc.contributor.author | Olivier, Bert | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2010-12-09T12:22:32Z | |
dc.date.available | 2010-12-09T12:22:32Z | |
dc.date.created | 2010-11 | |
dc.date.issued | 2001 | |
dc.description | Article 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.abstract | This 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.uri | http://explore.up.ac.za/record=b1719138 | en_US |
dc.format.extent | 8 pages | en_US |
dc.format.medium | en_US | |
dc.identifier.citation | Olivier, B 2001, 'Merleau-Ponty and painting.' South African Journal of Art History, vol. 16, pp. 139-146. | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0258-3542 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/15406 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Art Historical Work Group of South Africa | en_US |
dc.rights | Art Historical Work Group of South Africa | en_US |
dc.subject | Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 | en_US |
dc.subject | Phenomenology | en_US |
dc.subject | Perception (Philosophy) | en_US |
dc.subject | Art -- Philosophy | en_US |
dc.subject | Art -- Criticism | en_US |
dc.subject | Art -- South Africa -- 21st century | en_US |
dc.subject.lcsh | Art -- History | |
dc.subject.lcsh | Art and society | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Visual communication in art | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Painting -- Themes, motives | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Painting -- Appreciation | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Painting, Modern -- 21st century | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Painting, South African | en |
dc.title | Merleau-Ponty and painting | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |