This work provides a unique, philosophical interpretation of a significant twentieth-century painter - Wassily Kandinsky. Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy dev...
This work provides a unique, philosophical interpretation of a significant twentieth-century painter - Wassily Kandinsky. Michel Henry was one of the leading French philosophers of the twentieth century. His numerous works of philosophy are all organized around the theme of life. In contrast to the scientific understanding of life as a biological process, Henry's philosophy develops a conception of life as an immediate feeling of one's own living. "Seeing the Invisible" marks Henry's most sustained engagement in the field of aesthetics. Through an analysis of the life and works of Wassily Kandinsky, Henry uncovers the philosophical significance of Kandinsky's revolution in painting: that abstract art reveals the invisible essence of life.Henry shows that Kandinsky separates colour and line from the constraints of visible form and, in so doing, conveys the invisible intensity of life - a force rooted in the corporeity and pathos of all living beings. More than just a study of art history, this book presents Kandinsky as an artist who is engaged in the project of painting the invisible and thus offers invaluable methodological clues for Henry's own phenomenology of the invisible.
What, then, is given in this visual experience to which one must return?Husserl says that the object is an ideal pole of identity over and above the multiplicity of its sensible appearances. That is why the painter does not really want to paint this ideal pole, this concept or entity which is always one and the same—the cathedral of Rouen or the haystack. Instead, the painter seeks these ‘sensible appearances’ in their singularity and changes:this form with ungraspable contours and with faint lights that twinkle in the dazzling night, a bedazzlement where reality breaks down into pure bursts of blinding light, slips into the unknown, loses all consistency, and ultimately disappears. It is precisely in seeing Monet’s haystacks at the 1896 Moscow exhibition that Kandinsky felt one of his mos... (查看原文)
Dance is the art that opens us to the mysterious reality of movement.Dance can only touch us because it puts us in the presence of ‘abstract’movement, stripped of its extrinsic purpose and objective shell. Movement’s essence consists of the pure deployment of force and it shows the history of force. Its inner history refers to how it seizes hold of itself in the happiness of effort brought to its completion; effort is not an external obstacle but the Basis of Life. It returns and agrees with this Basis when, capable of nothing more, it experiences another Power within itself, namely, the power of the life that gave it to itself. The activity of life has no other sense than to let us experience the magnificence of this gift. (查看原文)
Interior = interiority of absolute subjectivity = life = invisible = pathos = abstract content = abstract form，“L'art est la résurrection de la vie éternelle.”
Interior = interiority of absolute subjectivity = life = invisible = pathos = abstract content = abstract form，“L'art est la résurrection de la vie éternelle.”
2 有用 碎虹蝶歌 2021-09-13 03:45:36
Interior = interiority of absolute subjectivity = life = invisible = pathos = abstract content = abstract form，“L'art est la résurrection de la vie éternelle.”
2 有用 碎虹蝶歌 2021-09-13 03:45:36
Interior = interiority of absolute subjectivity = life = invisible = pathos = abstract content = abstract form，“L'art est la résurrection de la vie éternelle.”