ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) Philosophical Seminar

Jaroslava Vydrová
(Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava)

April, 16. h. 4 pm
Palazzo Nuovo AULA 10
& online

https://unito.webex.com/unito/j.php?MTID=m9697fbec2c31df7ed92146c1e0039fb4

Phenomenological approach to the work of art (phenomenology and cubism)

The aim of the lecture is to reflect on the connections between phenomenology and cubism, which are drawn from the genealogy of phenomenology in the Central-Eastern Europe at the beginning of the 20th century. Firstly, I will observe common and close questions of Husserl’s philosophy and artistic initiative of cubists. Secondly, the relevance of this consideration can be elaborated thanks to the analyses of Czech philosophers (Bayerová, Patočka, Mathauser), theoreticians and works of cubists themselves (Kubišta, Filla, Hofman and others). The philosophical scope also opens the principal question—which will be my topic in the third part—of the intertwining of phenomenological and cubistic methods (epoché, reduction and pictorial elaboration). We can identify as phenomenological tendencies in cubistic works of art, their claim to liberate perception, to create pure forms and to refuse the representative and imitative function of art. The aim is to see these questions with respect to the creative possibilities of the subject/artist as well as the pictorial/perceptive character of the world.

Jaroslava Vydrová, PhD. is a senior researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava and teaches at the Department of Philosophy, Trnava University. She is an editor-in-chief of the journal Ostium and a vice-president of the Executive Committee of Central and East European Society for Phenomenology. Her research is focused on phenomenology of E. Husserl and philosophical anthropology of H. Plessner, particularly on the problem of expressivity, corporeality, gestures, creativity, works of art and play. She is the author of books (in Slovak): Ways of Phenomenology. Phenomenological Method of late Husserl (2010), Expressivity – Work of Art – Corporeality (2019), A Brief Introduction to Phenomenology (2020). Her recent articles include (in English): Man as a Being of Hygiene in a Phenomenological and Anthropological Perspective (2023), Possibilities of a Hand: a Phenomenological Perspective (2022), The Intertwining of Phenomenology and Philosophical Anthropology: From Husserl to Plessner (2021), The Intertwining of Phenomenology and Cubism – in the Analyses and Works of Art of Czech Artists and Theoreticians (2016).

ART (Aesthetics Research Torino) is a periodic philosophical seminar organized by the Department of Philosophy and Educational Sciences of the University of Turin and the PhD Program FINO.

Coordinator:
Prof. Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin).

Members:
Prof. Carlo Serra (University of Turin/University of Calabria)
Prof.ssa Serena Feloj (University of Pavia)
Dr. Alberto Martinengo (University of Turin)
Dr. Paolo Furia (University of Turin)
Dr. Jacopo Frascaroli (University of Turin)
Dr. Lisa Giombini (University Rome 3)
Dr. Gregorio Tenti (University of Turin)
Dr. Amalia Salvestrini (Istituto Italiano per gli Studi FIlosofici, Naples)
Dr. Francesca Monateri (Pisa, Scuola Normale)
Dr. Francesca Perotto (FINO)
Dr. Ivan Quartesan (FINO)
Dr. Sofia Boz (University of Padova)
Dr. Leonardo Pietropaolo (University of Turin)
Dr. Luisa Sampugnaro (University of Turin)
Dr. Nicola Davide Angerame (Turin)

ART addresses different topics of the contemporary debate in Aesthetics: philosophy of beauty, philosophy of the arts, theory of sensory experience, philosophy of image and imagination, and history of aesthetics.

ART is supported by:

Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sulla Morfologia Francesco Moiso (CIM)
Centro Studi Arti della Modernità
Centro Studi Filosofico-religiosi "Luigi Pareyson"

ART is sponsored by:

Italian Society for Aesthetics (SIE)
European Society for Aesthetics (ESA)