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THE CROSSING OF THE VISIBLE
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| By: |
Jean-Luc Marion, James K. A. Smith (Trans) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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| ISBN 10: |
0804733910 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780804733915 |
| Publisher: |
STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
18 December, 2003 |
| Series: |
Cultural Memory in the Present |
| Pages: |
120 |
| Description: |
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 which opens them to the invisible. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Stanford University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |