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Art in Mind by Ernst Van Alphen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Ernst Van Alphen

Current price: $52.00
Art in Mind by Ernst Van Alphen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters
Art in Mind by Ernst Van Alphen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Indigo

Art in Mind by Ernst Van Alphen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

From Ernst Van Alphen

Current price: $52.00
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Size: 0.6 x 10 x 1

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Art has the power to affect our thinking, changing not only the way we view and interact with the world but also how we create it. In Art in Mind, Ernst van Alphen probes this idea of art as a commanding force with the capacity to shape our intellect and intervene in our lives. Rather than interpreting art as merely a reflection of our social experience or a product of history, van Alphen here argues that art is a historical agent, or a cultural creator, that propels thought and experience forward. Examining a broad range of works, van Alphen—a renowned art historian and cultural theorist—demonstrates how art serves a socially constructive function by actually experimenting with the parameters of thought. Employing work from artists as diverse as Picasso, Watteau, Francis Bacon, Marlene Dumas, and Matthew Barney, he shows how art confronts its viewers with the "pain points" of cultural experience-genocide, sexuality, diaspora, and transcultural identity-and thereby transforms the ways in which human existence is conceived. Van Alphen analyzes how art visually "thinks" about these difficult cultural issues, tapping into an understudied interpretation of art as the realm where ideas and values are actively created, given form, and mobilized. In this way, van Alphen's book is a work of art in itself as it educates us in a new mode of thought that will forge equally new approaches and responses to the world. | Art in Mind by Ernst Van Alphen, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

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