Visual Experience in Painting and Cinema
AbstractThis two-part event looks at modes of perception in relation to architecture. Hubert Damisch will speak on the Blur Building by Diller + Scofidio. Hubert Damisch is a French philosopher specializing in aesthetics and art history, and was a professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris from 1975 to 1996.In 1967 he founded the Cercle d’histoire/théorie de l’art that would later become the CEHTA (Centre d'histoire et théorie des arts) at the EHESS. Damisch works “at the seams between different forms and substances of expression, while drawing upon the multiple field of aesthetics, philosophy, mathematics, semiotics and psychoanalysis.” Damisch has written extensively on the history and theory of painting, architecture, photography, cinema, theater, and the museum. The guiding principle of Damisch's work is the conception of the work of art as a “theoretical model”; that is, the capacity of art to invent paradigmatic structures, such as perspective, which operate on a both technical and perceptual level. Offering an alternative to the approach of cultural studies or visual studies, Damisch has argued that the “paradigm” or “theoretical object” of art, while remaining attentive to the material specificity of artistic practice, necessarily transverses various cultural domains. Notable publications include Théorie du /nuage/: Pour une historie de la peinture, Ruptures/cultures, Fenêtre jaune cadmium, ou les dessous de la peinture, L'Origine de la perspective, Le Jugement de Paris , Skyline: La ville Narcisse, Un Souvenir d'enfance par Piero della Francesca, La Dénivelée: A l'épreuve de la photographie, La Peinture en écharpe: Delacroix, la photographie, and most recently Ciné Fil. Teri Wehn-Damisch is a producer, director, and screenwriter. She directed Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture, a 2007 documentary on the life and work of Phyllis Lambert. |
