Brain Eye

English-language translation of a major work by French philosopher Eric Alliez, in which he offers a new perspective on critical problems in modern aesthetics.

List of contents

Translator's Preface / Epigraph / Note to the Viewer-Reader / Acknowledgements / Introduction / Chapter 1: 19 June 1799-The Goethe-Transformation / Chapter 2: Delacroix and the Massacre of Painting / Chapter 3. On the New Path of the Contemporary: The Manet Plane / Chapter 4. Grey Times on La Grande Jatte (The Extraterrestrial/Seurat/The Machine-Eye) / Chapter 5. Gauguin, or the Eye of the Earth / Chapter 6. Ten Variations on Cézanne's Concentric Eye / List of Works Studied / Bibliography / Index of Names

About the author

Éric Alliez is Professor of Contemporary French Philosophy at Kingston University, London, and Professor of Aesthetics at Paris.

Summary

English-language translation of a major work by French philosopher Eric Alliez, in which he offers a new perspective on critical problems in modern aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: Alliez, Aeric Alliez, Eric Alliez, Alliez Eric
• Assisted by: Robin Mackay (Translation), Mackay Robin (Translation)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2015
• EAN: 9781783480678
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-067-8
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Painting & paintings, Paintings and painting