Experiencing Art and Architecture: Lessons on Looking
Author/Editor | Iliescu, Sanda (Author) |
ISBN: 9780367441067
Pub Date | 23/03/2022 |
Binding | Paperback |
Pages | 222 |
Dimensions (mm) | 234(h) * 156(w) |
In this book, Sanda Iliescu brings aesthetics back into the conversation, exploring the subject through compelling examinations of lived experiences of works of art and architecture.
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In this multidisciplinary book, Sanda Iliescu articulates a rich, multi-faceted approach to the aesthetic experience.
Through in-depth discussions of her own lived encounters with art, architecture, and the world around her, she advocates a way of looking that blends sensory perception, formal analysis, social and political consciousness, and personal memory. Focusing special attention on the aesthetic concept of the figure-ground problem, the author challenges this foundational principle's presumed hierarchies and shows how a new and more dynamic understanding of it can enhance our way of looking at and understanding art and architecture. Works discussed in the book include a wide range of contemporary and historic art and architecture, among them artworks by Rembrandt, Matisse, Eva Hesse, and David Hammons; architecture by Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, and Weiss/Manfredi; and non-Western works such as a thirteenth-century Chinese vase, the dry garden at Ryoanji, and Hasegawa Tohaku's Pine Trees.
Personal and engaging, the book is for a wide audience of those practicing, studying, or with an interest in the creative fields, from beginners to seasoned professionals.