The first sustained phenomenological approach to modern art, taking a new approach and drawing upon an unsual selection of thinkers.

Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday worl

That modern art is different from earlier art is so obvious as to be hardly worth mentioning. Yet there is little agreement as to the meaning or the importance

The book is a comprehensive phenomenological study of meanings that are unique to the major visual art forms.

Debates over the 'end of art' have tended to obscure Hegel's work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art's indispensabil