The Crossing of the Visible Paperback / softback
by Jean-Luc Marion
Part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series
Paperback / softback
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Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a central topic of concern for philosophy, particularly phenomenology.
For the question of painting is, at its heart, a question of visibility—of appearance.
As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for investigating the conditions of appearance—or what Marion describes as "phenomenality" in general. In The Crossing of the Visible, Marion takes up just such a project.
The natural outgrowth of his earlier reflections on icons, these four studies carefully consider the history of painting—from classical to contemporary—as a fund for phenomenological reflection on the conditions of (in)visibility.
Ranging across artists from Raphael to Rothko, Caravaggio to Pollock, The Crossing of the Visible offers both a critique of contemporary accounts of the visual and a constructive alternative.
According to Marion, the proper response to the "nihilism" of postmodernity is not iconoclasm, but rather a radically iconic account of the visual and the arts that opens them to the invisible.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:11/12/2003
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- ISBN:9780804733922
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:11/12/2003
- Category:
- ISBN:9780804733922
