The crossing of the visible / Jean-Luc Marion ; translated by James K. A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marion, Jean-Luc, 1946- author.

Contributor:

Smith, James K. A., 1970- translator.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the present

Standardized Title:

Croisee du visible. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Visual perception.

Perspective.

Painting--Philosophy.

Painting.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (116 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. The crossing of the visible and the invisible

2. What gives

3. The blind at Shiloh

4. The prototype and the image

Bibliographical note

Translator’s note

Notes

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503602717

1503602710

OCLC:

1198930482