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Beyond the Surface: Phenomenological Encounters with Paintings

Beyond the Surface: Phenomenological Encounters with Paintings

Van Houte, Cornelis

Paperback

Series: Art, Book 8

General Art

ISBN13: 9798290201481
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 29 2025
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.62
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What does it truly mean to see a painting?

This book invites artists, critics, historians, and all thoughtful viewers to look again - more slowly, more deeply, and more bodily. Blending clear phenomenological insights with vivid close readings of works by Monet, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Morisot, Cassatt and beyond. This book reveals how art does not simply depict the world but transforms the very act of perception.

Tracing a path from 19th-century ruptures in vision to contemporary installation art and neuroscience, Dr. Cornelis van Houte - painter and scholar - offers practical tools for experiencing painting as a dynamic field of sensation, time, and meaning. This is not just a study of artworks, but an invitation to practice a more profound way of seeing, both in museums and in life itself.

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