TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paskow,Alan
TI  - The paradoxes of art: a phenomenological investigation 
SN  - 0521828333
AV  - BH301.R42 P37 2004
U1  - 111.85 21
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Cambridge, UK, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Reality in art
KW  - Painting
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Reality in literature
KW  - Belief, Problem of (Literature)
KW  - Phenomenology
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-256) and index; 1; The Reality of Fictional Beings --; 2; Things in Our World --; 3; Why and How Others Matter --; 4; Why and How Painting Matters --; 5; For and Against Interpretation
N2  - "In this study, Alan Paskow first asks why fictional characters, such as Hamlet and Anna Karenina, matter to us and how they emotionally affect us. He then applies these questions to pictorial art, demonstrating that certain paintings beckon us to view their contents as real. Emblematic of the fundamental concerns of our lives, what we visualize in paintings, he argues, is not simply in our heads but in our world. Paskow also situates the phenomenological approach to methodological assumptions and claims in analytic aesthetics as well as the experience of painting in relation to contemporary schools of thought, particularly Marxist, feminist, and deconstructionist."--BOOK JACKET
ER  -