| The Crossing of the Visible Contributor(s): Marion, Jean-Luc (Author), Smith, James K. A. (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0804733929 ISBN-13: 9780804733922 Publisher: Stanford University Press OUR PRICE: $22.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2003 Annotation: 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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| BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - Painting - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 750.18 |
| LCCN: 2003021461 |
| Series: Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 6.22" W x 9.4" (0.33 lbs) 120 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Marion, Jean-Luc: - Jean-Luc Marion, member of the Academie francaise, is emeritus professor of philosophy at the Universite Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV). He is the Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies, professor of the philosophy of religions and theology, and professor in the Committee on Social Thought and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He also holds the Dominique Dubarle chair at the Institut Catholique of Paris. He is the author of many books, includingThe Erotic PhenomenonandGod without Being, both also published by the University of Chicago Press. |