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Paul Crowther - How Pictures Complete Us - 9780804795739 - V9780804795739
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How Pictures Complete Us

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Description for How Pictures Complete Us hardcover. The book shows how pictorial art conveys aesthetic transcendence--a felt, though symbolic experience of going beyond our finite limitations that sometimes involves a sense of communing with God Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: ABA; HPN; HRLB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 238 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.

Despite the wonders of the digital world, people still go in record numbers to view drawings and paintings in galleries. Why? What is the magic that pictures work on us? This book provides a provocative explanation, arguing that some pictures have special kinds of beauty and sublimity that offer aesthetic transcendence. They take us imaginatively beyond our finite limits and even invoke a sense of the divine. Such aesthetic transcendence forges a relationship with the ultimate and completes us psychologically. Philosophers and theologians sometimes account for this as an effect of art, but How Pictures Complete Us distinguishes itself by ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804795739
SKU
V9780804795739
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50

About Paul Crowther
Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His many books include Phenomenology of the Visual Arts (even the frame) (Stanford, 2009).

Reviews for How Pictures Complete Us
"Paul Crowther's vital contribution to the burgeoning field of theological aesthetics analyzes what exactly the experience of transcendence is and how it takes place through the mediation of visual art. At once a complement and a challenge to contemporary scholarship, his book is a must-read for anyone attempting to understand the visual arts as a humanizing endeavor."—Sandra Lynne Shapshay, Indiana ... Read more

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