The Color of Pain

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2428133
AutoresA Irving (0000-0002-5213-8234, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen21
Número2
Páginas293-319
Fecha de publicación2009-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPublic Culture (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0899-2363 • E-ISSN: 1527-8018
EditorialDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/08992363-2008-030
OpenAlexW2069780021
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas13

By focusing on artworks made by persons confronting their own mortality, this essay explores the relation between the exterior, visible colors of art and the interior experiences of pain and imagination, as mediated through the process of artistic production by persons living with a sick or unstable body. As color always contains hidden shades that are wrapped up within personal biography, the imagination, and diverse existential circumstances, I argue that colors contained in these artworks can never be "pure," for they are too contaminated by disease, death, emotion, and imagination for the purposes of cognitive science and are too intertwined with a specific personal biography and bodily experience to offer a straightforward account of shared social and cultural practices

Aesthetics · Art · Biography · Cognition · Epistemology · Existentialism · Literature · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Computer Science · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory