Introduction
The Affective Encounter
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2224062 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne Keefe (University of North Texas, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 277-280 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0097-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-6943 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/678142 |
| OpenAlex | W2180876330 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
This essay introduces articles in a comparative perspectives symposium on gender, perception, and art. Building on key feminist theoretical investigations of subjectivity and embodiment, the essay defines the moment of perceptual and sensorial interaction with an artwork as “the affective encounter.”
Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics) · Art · Cognitive psychology · Epistemology · Key (lock) · Perception · Sociology · Subjectivity · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Communication · Computer Science · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |