Perception and Agency in Shared Spaces of Contemporary Art (Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies)

This book examines the interconnections between art, phenomenology, and cognitive studies. Contributors question the binary oppositions generally drawn between visuality and agency, sensing and thinking, phenomenal art and politics, phenomenology and structuralism, and subjective involvement and social belonging. Instead, they foreground the many ways that artists ask us to consider how we sense, think, and act in relation to a work of art.

Cristina Albu is Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, USA.

Dawna Schuld is Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History in the Department of Visualization at Texas A&M University, USA.