F David Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5688604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | F David Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | F David |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN F D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bucknell University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Geef ons maar Amsterdam. De honderd beste liedjes over Mokum [Gib uns bloβ Amsterdam. Die einhundert besten Lieder über Amsterdam]
Nationale hymnen. Het Wilhelmus en zijn buren (Nationalhymnen. Das Wilhelmuslied und seine Nachbarn)
A Judgment of Art
Cool Museums and Hot Museums
On Perceiving Paintings and Sculpture
The author states that descriptions of the perception of figurative paintings and sculptures traditionally have been confused by the intrusion of interpretive explanations. Phenomenological description—that is, description as determined as much as possible by the phenomena (paintings and sculptures) rather than by theoretical considerations—indicates that sculptures are perceived in significantly different ways from paintings. He finds that failu…
What Is a Christian Painting
The author proposes a distinction between subject matter, form (the style of depiction), and content in a painting. The subject matter is what the painting ‘is about’, but it is not directly perceivable when it has been transformed by the form. The content is the artist’s interpretation of subject matter as revealed by the form. Whereas decorative pictures are designed to please, fine art is also designed to inform. To reveal what is considered t…
The Arts and the ‘Between’
Journal Article THE ARTS AND THE ‘BETWEEN’ Get access F. David Martin F. David Martin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 17, Issue 1, WINTER 1977, Pages 22–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/17.1.22 Published: 01 January 1977
A Pictorial Syntax of Shapes (Continued)
Art and the Religious Experience
The Aesthetic in Religious Experience
William James catalogued an amazing diversity of religious experiences. Yet even the pluralistic James was able to find a nucleus, consisting of an uneasiness and its solution, ‘1. The uneasiness, reduced to its simplest terms, is a sense that there is something wrong about us as we naturally stand. 2. The solution is a sense that we are saved from the wrongness by making proper connection with the higher powers.’ But by stressing the moral facto…
Spiritual Asymmetry in Portraiture
Journal Article SPIRITUAL ASYMMETRY IN PORTRAITURE Get access F. David Martin F. David Martin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1965, Pages 6–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/5.1.6 Published: 01 January 1965
On Perceiving Paintings and Sculpture
The author states that descriptions of the perception of figurative paintings and sculptures traditionally have been confused by the intrusion of interpretive explanations. Phenomenological description—that is, description as determined as much as possible by the phenomena (paintings and sculptures) rather than by theoretical considerations—indicates that sculptures are perceived in significantly different ways from paintings. He finds that failu…
Art and the Religious Experience
Spiritual Asymmetry in Portraiture
Journal Article SPIRITUAL ASYMMETRY IN PORTRAITURE Get access F. David Martin F. David Martin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1965, Pages 6–13, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/5.1.6 Published: 01 January 1965
The Aesthetic in Religious Experience
William James catalogued an amazing diversity of religious experiences. Yet even the pluralistic James was able to find a nucleus, consisting of an uneasiness and its solution, ‘1. The uneasiness, reduced to its simplest terms, is a sense that there is something wrong about us as we naturally stand. 2. The solution is a sense that we are saved from the wrongness by making proper connection with the higher powers.’ But by stressing the moral facto…
Art and the Religious Experience
A Pictorial Syntax of Shapes (Continued)
What Is a Christian Painting
The author proposes a distinction between subject matter, form (the style of depiction), and content in a painting. The subject matter is what the painting ‘is about’, but it is not directly perceivable when it has been transformed by the form. The content is the artist’s interpretation of subject matter as revealed by the form. Whereas decorative pictures are designed to please, fine art is also designed to inform. To reveal what is considered t…
The Arts and the ‘Between’
Journal Article THE ARTS AND THE ‘BETWEEN’ Get access F. David Martin F. David Martin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, Volume 17, Issue 1, WINTER 1977, Pages 22–36, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjaesthetics/17.1.22 Published: 01 January 1977
On Perceiving Paintings and Sculpture
The author states that descriptions of the perception of figurative paintings and sculptures traditionally have been confused by the intrusion of interpretive explanations. Phenomenological description—that is, description as determined as much as possible by the phenomena (paintings and sculptures) rather than by theoretical considerations—indicates that sculptures are perceived in significantly different ways from paintings. He finds that failu…
A Judgment of Art
Cool Museums and Hot Museums
Nationale hymnen. Het Wilhelmus en zijn buren (Nationalhymnen. Das Wilhelmuslied und seine Nachbarn)
Geef ons maar Amsterdam. De honderd beste liedjes over Mokum [Gib uns bloβ Amsterdam. Die einhundert besten Lieder über Amsterdam]
Art (9 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Art history (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Visual Culture and Art Theory (3 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works)