Le paysage et l’œuvre d’art: Rencontres et rétroactions

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between the work of art as an aesthetic object and the experience of landscape. This nexus – frequently emphasized in the history of aesthetics – may be understood either as conflictual and asymmetrical or as symbiotic, and even as simultaneously both. More specifically, two different perspectives within phenomenological aesthetics – those of Henri Maldiney and Mikel Dufrenne – will be examined in order to identify their internal paradoxes and theoretical difficulties.