Beyond Immanence: Aesthetic Explorations

Ten Short Essays on Painting & Music

By CARLOS A. SEGOVIA


Painting as a threshold where that which we see before us drifts tremulously into the unseen. Music as sound and resonance that so scuttles our senses we cannot but be submerged in the surging sea of immediacy. Moving from Brancusi, Caravaggio, Fra Angelico, Titian, Balthus, Oteiza, Redon, and Georges de La Tour to the enigmatic world of the French Baroque lute, Carlos A. Segovia explores the “black and luminous” moments in which art becomes paradox and labyrinth.

Segovia’s prose is an invigorating blend of poetic lyricism and philosophical acuity. Beyond Immanence gives us art criticism not as an exercise in object analysis, but as a vital practice of subjective immersion, as a way of seeing and hearing — indeed, of being — according to and with…

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