Heidegger’s hermeneutic circle: What is the meaning of art?
In The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger uses the hermeneutic circle to show that working and thinking are processes of unconcealing existential truth.
The poetry of things…according to Martin Heidegger
In Building, Dwelling, Thinking and The Thing, Heidegger shows how interpretations change our existential relationship with ourselves and the world.
To dwell poetically…according to Martin Heidegger
Heidegger addresses what it means to dwell poetically in his essays. The conclusion: we are all capable of being poetic because it is part of being human.
Ways of seeing the world: The relationship between subject and object
Phenomenology as a concept can feel abstract. One way to understand experiences as phenomena is to consider the relationship between subject and object.
Introduction to phenomenology for environmental design
Our awareness is limited to what we know until we learn to shift the way we see. Phenomenology creates shifts by contextualising and bracketing experience.
Appreciation for Johan Christian Dahl
Johan Christian Dahl is the best representative of the three pillars of Romantic art: spiritual connection, scientific observation, and personal expression.
Between science and mystery: Representing the intangible in Romantic art
While Romantic science deliberated over nature’s purpose, the existence of souls, and Earth’s creation, Romantic art turned to these subjects for inspiration.
Romantic science, the existence of souls, and nature’s truth
Romantic science was sentimental and subjective and was simultaneously inseparable from and at tensions with religious faith. Art revealed this duality.
Introduction to the sublime in Romanticism and Luminism
This post discusses Burke and Kant’s sublime and shows examples of landscape paintings by Northern European Romantics, the Hudson River School and Luminists.
In search for truth: Science, faith, and the representation of nature in Romantic art
In Romantic landscape paintings we can find evidence of how science, faith, and the representation of nature shape the way we see landscapes and nature today.