Envisioned, Intentioned

A Painter Informs an Anthropologist About Social Relations

Bibliographic Data

ID2266528
AuthorsN Rapport (0000-0003-2803-0212, University of St Andrews, corresponding author)
Year2004
Volume10
Issue4
Pages861-881
Publication date2004-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1359-0987 • E-ISSN: 1467-9655
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9655.2004.00215.x
OpenAlexW1564906878
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

This article elaborates upon George Steiner's description of the 'dual phenomenology' of social relations: their 'common surface and private base'. A flow of articulate consciousness informs the routine contours and structures of social life, belying notions of common world-view or collective life-world. An analytical tension must be sustained between a social structure and its personalization. The article argues that the consciousness of the artist provides an exemplary case study by which to explore, in exaggerated form, the phenomenology of social relations within the life-world of the individual actor. The artistic output of the English painter and diarist Stanley Spencer is focused on in order to outline an existential approach to social relations via intentionality

Aesthetics · Art history · Consciousness · Epistemology · Existentialism · Intentionality · Painting · Phenomenology (philosophy · Psychoanalysis · Social life · Social relation · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diversity and Impact of Dance · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies

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