Frameworks, Artworks, Place: The Space of Perception in the Modern World (Consciousness, Literature and the Arts, 11)

How space – mental, emotional, visual – is implicated in our constructions of reality and our art is the focus of this set of innovative essays. For the first time art theorists and historians, visual artists, literary critics and philosophers have come together to assay the problem of space both within conventional discipline boundaries and across them. What emerges is a stimulating discussion of the problem of embodied space and situated consciousness that will be of interest to the general reader as well as specialists working in the fields of art history and art practice, literature, philosophy and education.

Tim Mehigan studied German literature and philosophy at Sydney, Trier and Freiburg universities, graduating in 1988 with a doctoral thesis on Heinrich von Kleist. He has published widely on literature and philosophy, notably on Kleist and Robert Musil. He has been foundation Chair of Languages at the University of Otago, New Zealand’s premier research university, since 2004, was a Humboldt Fellow at the University of Munich in 1994 and 1995, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.