Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-14-2018
Abstract
Drawing on the latter thinking of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as on the ideas of other contemporary philosophers and theorists, this essay considers the denigration of vision from Plato to twentieth-century anti-ocularism, and argues for the reclamation of vision and visual perception as sensuous, embodied interplay between humans and world, self and other—an opening to wonder and more sensitive human-world relations. It does so through a phenomenological exploration of the process of art-making, and consideration of the role and value of artworks and images in the world. This essay is first and foremost an enquiry. As such it promises no final conclusions but is rather a process, a journey through the contested territory of the sensual world of art and vision.
Recommended Citation / Citation recommandée
Carruthers, Beth.
"Returning the Radiant Gaze: Visual art and embodiment in a world of subjects."
The Goose, vol. 17
,
no.
1
, article 32,
2018,
https://scholars.wlu.ca/thegoose/vol17/iss1/32.
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