Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics: Heidegger, Derrida and Contingency in Twentieth Century Art

by Ian Andrews

Book Overview

In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. His account of how the composer John Cage and other avant-garde creatives such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sol LeWitt and Ed Ruscha used chance in their work to question the structures of experience...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350187127
• ISBN13: 9781350187122
• Release Date: May 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"