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Colors of the concepts : philosophers on paintings / Alex Taek-Gwang Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Alex Taek-Gwang, author.
- Series:
- Anthem symploke studies in theory ; 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and philosophy.
- Painting--Philosophy.
- Painting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (150 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- London : Anthem Press, 2025.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- Prologue: Image and Thought
- Imagination and Philosophy
- The Birth of Critical Philosophy
- The Restoration of Reason
- Chapter 1 to 8
- 1 Hegel: History and Rembrandt's The Night Watch
- Illustration as a Phenomenon
- No Shiny Appearance in the Ordinary
- The Representation of Humanity
- 2 Freud: The Unconscious and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa
- Painting as Afterwardsness
- Freud's Discovery
- Leonardo's Fantasy
- 3 Heidegger: Being and van Gogh's A Pair of Shoes
- Truth in Art
- Contesting Heidegger
- 4 Benjamin: Weak Messianism and Klee's Angelus Novus
- The Meaning of a New Angel
- Against Fascism
- The Power of a Weak Messiah
- 5 Gramsci: Imagination and Timanthes's The Sacrifice of Iphigenia
- A Revolutionary's Painting
- A Veil as a Device
- The Visible and the Invisible
- 6 Adorno: Political Commitment and Picasso's Guernica
- The Autonomy of Art
- Fragmented Truths
- Picasso's Politics
- The Western Marxism Triangle
- 7 Sartre: Analogon and Matisse's Harmony in Red
- Art as a Philosophical Project
- Reflections and Intuitions
- Intellectuals and Engagement
- Philosophy from Below
- The Perceptual Dawn
- Existential Psychoanalysis
- 8 Maurice Merleau-Ponty: The Third Philosophy and Cézanne's Madame Cézanne in the Yellow Armchair
- Distortions and Deeper Truths
- Primal Perception and Pure Nature
- The Dialectic of Seeing
- Epilogue
- End Matter
- Notes
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9781839994234
- 1839994231
- Publisher Number:
- 40032870313
- CIPO000248242
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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