Philosophical Skepticism as the Subject of Art

David Carrier has taught philosophy in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and art history in Cleveland, Ohio. A former Getty Scholar and a Clark Fellow, he has been Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and Class of 1932 Fellow in Philosophy, Princeton University, USA.

• Personal PrefaceIntroduction: Philosophy as a Subject for Visual Art1. Identity/Metamorphosis/Translation2. An Introduction to Maria Bussmann’s Translations3. Are Translations of Philosophy into Visual Art Possible?4. Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 5. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, The Visible and the Invisible6. Hannah Arendt7. Lawrence Carroll and Maria Bussmann8. Illustrations, Graphic Novels, Diagrams9. An Art History Made by Bussmann10. the Composition and Interpretation of Bussmann’s ArtConclusion: The Contribution of Bussmann’s Art to Philosophical Aesthetics Maria Bussmann: Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions Maria Bussmann: Selected Public and Private CollectionsBibliography Index

Few contemporary artists have opened up the dialogue between the conceptual and the visual more insistently than Maria Bussmann. Carrier takes the reader boldly into the challenging world of her philosophically-inspired, genre-defying drawings as he probes her engagement with philosophers from Spinoza, Kant and Hegel to Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty and Arendt.