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Henri Bergson and Visual Culture : A Philosophy for a New Aesthetic by Paul Atkinson is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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What does it mean to see time in the visual arts and how does art reveal the nature of time? Paul Atkinson investigates these questions through the work of the French philosopher Henri Bergson, whose theory of time as duration made him one of the most prominent thinkers of the fin de siècle. Although Bergson never enunciated an aesthetic theory and did not explicitly write on the visual arts, his philosophy gestures towards a play of sensual differences that is central to aesthetics. This book rethinks Bergson’s philosophy in terms of aesthetics and provides a fascinating and original account of how Bergsonian ideas aid in understanding time and dynamism in the visual arts. From an examination of Bergson’s influence on the visual arts to a reconsideration of the relationship between aesthetics and metaphysics, Henri Bergson and Visual Culture explores what it means to reconceptualisethe visual arts in terms of duration. Atkinson revisits four key themes in Bergson’s work – duration; time and the continuous gesture; the ramification of life and durational difference – and reveals Bergsonian aesthetics of duration through the application of these themes to a number of nineteenth and

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Author

Paul Atkinson

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc Bloomsbury Academic

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9781350161801

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Humanities