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Painting, according to Jean-Luc Marion, is a topic of central 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 this book, Marion takes up just such a subject. 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, this work 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 which opens them to the invisible.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Philosophy History of Western philosophy

• Full title: Crossing of the Visible
• Author: Jean-Luc Marion
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 120
• EAN: 9780804733915
• ISBN: 0804733910
• ID: 04716852
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 254 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 18. December 2003

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