The Crossing of the Visible

The Crossing of the Visible
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 116
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ISBN-10 : 9781503602717
ISBN-13 : 1503602710
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Book Synopsis The Crossing of the Visible by : Jean-Luc Marion

Download or read book The Crossing of the Visible written by Jean-Luc Marion and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2003-12-18 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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