Research Catalog

Title

Seeing things : deepening relations with visual artefacts / Stephen Pattison.

Author

Pattison, Stephen.

Publication

London : SCM Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xi, 292 p., [8] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The author of this book is arguing that the range of things we choose to see and value is arbitrary and limited and the ways in which we relate to things and objects are mostly crude and un-nuanced. It is also argued here that it is desirable to consider more person-like relationships with all manner of visibly perceived objects, from classical sculptures to tennis rackets. If we begin to apply this person-like relationship with things, we transgress the Western secular and religious practice and belief that maintains that the realm of the manufactured is 'dead' and so can be treated by humans exactly as they wish without consideration. This person-like relationship does not mean re-animating or re-sacramentalising the world, but observation and exploration of the actual phenomenology of the object should not be a lost cause."--Jacket.

Alternative Title

Deepening relations with visual artefacts

Subject

• Aesthetics > Religious aspects
• Material culture > Religious aspects
• Perception (Philosophy) > Moral and ethical aspects
• Aesthetics > Moral and ethical aspects
• Material culture > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-280) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Catching sight : vision, sight and visuality -- 2. Touching sight : rediscovering haptic vision -- 3. What is an image? -- 4. Obstacles to taking images and visual artefacts seriously -- 5. Relating to visual artefacts 1 : antecedent and contextual factors -- 6. Relating to visual artefacts 2 : factors inherent in objects -- 7. The matter of visual objects -- 8. Communicating with visual artefacts -- 9. Deepening personlike relationships with visual artefacts -- 10. Loving artefacts--approaches and practicalities -- 11. Touching God : Christians and relationships with visible artefacts.

ISBN

• 9780334041498 (pbk.)
• 033404149X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 195626127
• SCSB-11014646

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library