Keeping art to its edge

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Edward S. Casey

Department of Philosophy

SUNY at Stony Brook

Stony Brook, NY 11794

USA

E‐mail: [email protected]

See J.J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception [1979] (Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1986) 308.

See the remarkable study by Gary Shapiro, Earthwards: Robert Smithson and Art after Babel (Berkeley: U of California P, 1995).

Robert Smithson, statement at symposium entitled “Earth,” cited in Robert Smithson, Collected Writings, ed. J. Flam (Berkeley: U of California P, 1996) 185. See also Smithson's statement that “I feel that you have to set your own limits [in art] …” (interview with Anthony Robbin, in The Writings of Robert Smithson: Essays with Illustrations, ed. N. Holt (New York: New York UP, 1979) 159).

Igor Stravinsky, Poetics of Music (New York: Random, 1960) 68.

The first part of this citation comes from “Earth,” Collected Writings 181; the second from the essay “Spiral Jetty,” ibid. 146.

“Toward the Development of an Air Terminal Site” (1967) in Collected Writings 60; original emphasis.

The classical statement is found in E.J. Gibson and R.D. Walk, “The Visual Cliff,” Scientific American 202 (1960): 64–71.

For a discussion of “brink” and a comparison of horizontal vs. vertical surfaces in the environment, see J.J. Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception 230.

Ibid. 157.

Ibid. 127; original emphasis.

Ibid. 308.

These two phrases come from ibid. 230; they form part of the first epigraph to this paper.

Ibid. 127. On the layout of surfaces, see ibid. 33–43.

On such virtual bodily motions, see R.G. Collingwood, Principles of Art (Oxford: Oxford UP, 1938), e.g., 151: “an imaginative experience of total bodily activity.”

For a rigorous distinction between visual field and visual world, see Gibson, The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception 206–07.

Wallace Stevens, “The Emperor of Ice‐Cream” in Collected Poetry and Prose (New York: Library of America, 1997) 87.

See Collingwood, Principles of Art 78–104.

Maurice Merleau‐Ponty, “Eye and Mind,” trans. C. Dallery, in The Primacy of Perception, ed. J. Edie (Evanston: Northwestern UP, 1964) 190.

See Véronique Fóti, Vision's Invisibles: Philosophical Explorations (Albany: State U of New York P, 2003).

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Edward S. Casey Department of Philosophy SUNY at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 11794 USA E‐mail: [email protected]