{"product_id":"the-crossing-of-the-visible-9780804733915","title":"The Crossing of the Visible","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean-Luc Marion | James K. A. Smith\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Techniques - Painting\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainting, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Crossing of the Visible\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eThe Crossing of the Visible\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47613960028311,"sku":"9780804733915","price":10253.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804733915.webp?v=1775089231","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-crossing-of-the-visible-9780804733915","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}