The Crossing of the Visible
Arts and entertainment, Philosophy
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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