著者

島本 英明

出版者

西田哲学会

雑誌

西田哲学会年報 (ISSN:21881995)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.3, pp.133-150, 2006 (Released:2021-01-16)

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The purpose of this paper is to clarify the essence of Alberto Giacometti's sculpture of human body in the light of the philosophy of Kitaro Nishida. Alberto Giacometti's motif was to express the world just as it is seen. This experience can be considered as one mode of the pure experience, a basic philosophical conception of Nishida. Driven by this motif, the Swiss sculptor in the 20th century left a lot of sculptures in the form of a standing woman or a walking man. Usually one sees in them two typical forms which can easily be confirmed : The one is thin and the other is uneven in her surface. This paper tries to interpret these characters by understanding the artistic experience of Giacometti as one mode of the pure experience of Nishida. That is : These characters as not to be regarded as merely visual, but a clue to look into the invisible dimension of the work. Nishida's thought of the self-developing pure experience and the dynamism of the selfa wareness helps us to understand this invisible dimension of the work of Giacometti. The pure experience of Nishida and the artistic experience of Giacometti are essentially narrow to each other, but not the same with each other. Art can not be absorbed into philosophy, and the latter not into the former. But the philosophy of Nishida sheds a light on the work of Giacometti because of the analogy of the both.