ABSTRACT

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and thinking, phenomenal art and politics, phenomenology and structuralism, and subjective involvement and social belonging. Instead, they foreground the many ways that artists ask us to consider how we sense, think, and act in relation to a work of art.

chapter |15 pages

Beside Ourselves

part |32 pages

Phenomenal Worlds

part |35 pages

Disruption in Transmission

chapter 5|12 pages

Analogue Exchanges

Communication Technologies, Surveillance, and Selfhood in Roy Ascott’s Pedagogy

chapter 6|10 pages

Indexical Proof

Post-Studio Intersections of Earthrise and John Baldessari’s California Map Project

part |33 pages

Double Vision

chapter 7|8 pages

Seeing in Stereo

Robert Smithson’s Enantiomorphic Chambers

chapter 8|12 pages

Double Looking

The Point of View and the Political Sublime in Contemporary Art

part |37 pages

The Aesthetics of Social Space

chapter 10|12 pages

National Vision

Venezuelan Cinetismo and the Phenomenal Framework of Democracy

chapter 12|11 pages

There’s No Accounting for Taste

Eating, Thinking, and Debating in Contemporary Art

part |39 pages

The Accretion of Attention

chapter 13|12 pages

Eyes Wide Open

Hunting Ephemeral Images

chapter 14|13 pages

Enraptured

Attention and Art

chapter 15|12 pages

Just Noticeable Difference

Ontogenesis, Performativity, and thePerceptual Gap 1

part |39 pages

Entangled Realities

chapter 16|12 pages

Nonstop Modernism

Continuity in Jack Burnham’s Systems, Structures, and Occultism

chapter 17|12 pages

Not Directed Toward Anyone

The Indifference of a Situation or, Perception Under the Influence

chapter 18|13 pages

Impossible to Name

Performing the Ineffable 1