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Record Nr.

UNINA9911049186403321

Autore

Atkinson Paul <1967->

Titolo

Visualising an aesthetics of process / / by Paul Atkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2025

©2025

ISBN

9783032103826

3032103827

9783032103819

3032103819

Edizione

[1st ed. 2025.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxiii, 282 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Collana

Palgrave Perspectives on Process Philosophy, , 2524-4736

Disciplina

111.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Metaphysics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; 1. An Aesthetics of Durational Difference -- ; 2. Visuality and the Logic of Solid Bodies -- ; 3. Seeing Speed: Modernism and the Thresholds of Perception -- ; 4. Sensual Immediacy and the Time of Recognition -- ; 5. Material Rhythms and the Duration of the Creative Gesture -- ; 6. Kinaesthesia at Any Speed: Empathy, Rhythm and Performance -- ; 7. Life as a Frame of Reference: Aesthesis, Relativity and the Moving Image.

Sommario/riassunto

"This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes. Drawing on philosophers within the process tradition, the book argues that the visual arts and aesthetics need to directly address speed differentials in vision and the material medium. In doing so, it rephrases questions in aesthetics – which often involve perduring objects, substances or even eternal ideas – in terms of durational differences. From this perspective, aesthesis constitutes the confluence between visual finitude and the broader movements of material becoming. Visualising an Aesthetics of Process is essential reading for



all scholars, researchers and advanced students of aesthetics and metaphysics."--Provided by publisher.