CONTENTS List of plates vii Notes on contributors ix Acknowledgements xi Permissions xiii Introduction 1 JOSEPH D. PARRY AND MARK WRATHALL 1 The phenomenological relevance of art 9 MARK WRATHALL 2 Phenomenology and aesthetics; or, why art matters 31 STEVEN CROWELL 3 Objectivity and self-disclosedness: the phenomenological working of art 54 JEFF MALPAS 4 Horizon, oscillation, boundaries: a philosophical account of Mark Rothko's art 77 VIOLETTA L. WAIBEL 5 Representing the real: a Merleau-Pontyan account of art and experience from the Renaissance to New Media 90 SEAN DORRANCE KELLY 6 The j udgment of Adam: self-consciousness and normative orientation in Lucas Cranach's Eden 105 WAYNE MARTIN 7 Describing reality or disclosing worldhood?: Vermeer and Heidegger 138 BEATRICE HAN-PILE 8 Phenomenological history, freedom, and Botticelli'sCestello Annunciation 162 JOSEPH D. PARRY 9 Showing and seeing: film as phenomenology 192 JOHN B. BROUGH Index 215