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A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art (Aesthetics and Contemporary Art) by Mark Staff Brandl, David Carrier, Tiziana Andina is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Metaphor, which allows us to talk about things by comparing them to other things, is one of the most ubiquitous and adaptable features of language and thought. It allows us to clarify meaning, yet also evaluate and transform the ways we think, create and act. While we are alert to metaphor in spoken or written texts, it has, within the visual arts, been critically overlooked. Taking into consideration how metaphors are inventively embodied in the formal, technical, and stylistic aspects of visual artworks, Mark Staff Brandl shows how extensively artists rely on creative metaphor within their work. Exploring the work of a broad variety of artists – including Dawoud Bey, Dan Ramirez, Gaëlle Villedary, Raoul Deal, Sonya Clark, Titus Kaphar, Charles Boetschi, and more– he argues that metaphors are the foundation of visual thought, are chiefly determined by bodily and environmental experiences, and are embodied in artistic form. Visual artistic creation is philosophical thought. By grounding these arguments in the work of philosophers and cultural theorists, including Noël Carroll, Hans Georg Gadamer, and George Lakoff, Brandl shows how important metaphor is to understanding contemporar

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Mark Staff Brandl, David Carrier, Tiziana Andina
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury
Published
2023
Language
EN
ISBN
9781350073838
Category
nonfiction

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