The Crossing of the Visible EPUB
by Jean-Luc Marion
Part of the Cultural Memory in the Present series
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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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- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:18/12/2003
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- ISBN:9781503602717
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:120 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:18/12/2003
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- ISBN:9781503602717