Andrews, Jorella G.. 2024. 'Pictorial Rationalities, Radical Description, and Thinking from Below,'. In: Visual Cultures Public Programme Autumn 2024. Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom 5 December 2024. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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In ‘The Institution of a Work of Art’ (part of a 1954-55 lecture series called 'Institution in Personal and Public History'), the French phenomenologist Maurice Merleau-Ponty introduced his students at the Collège de France, Paris, to the idea of pictorial rationality: “… there is a pictorial rationality as there is a rationality of a painter’s work,” he stated, “rationality not of completion but of ‘investigation’.”

In this talk, I draw on Merleau-Ponty's notion of 'pictorial rationality' and explore two practices of my own—'radical description' and 'thinking from below'—to distil the insights from art practice, visual culture, and phenomenology that have had the greatest practical and strategic importance for me as a researcher, teacher, and arts- and environmentally-focused community worker.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Lecture)
Keywords:	visual thinking, description, visual analysis, phenomenology
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Visual Cultures
Dates:	Date Event 1 September 2024 Accepted 5 December 2024 Completed
Event Location:	Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom
Date range:	5 December 2024
Item ID:	37866
Date Deposited:	20 Nov 2024 15:58
Last Modified:	11 Dec 2024 14:36
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/37866

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