The Crossing of the Visible |
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| Author:
| Marion, Jean-Luc |
| Translator:
| Smith, James K. A. |
| Series title: | Cultural Memory in the Present Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8047-3391-5 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 2003 |
| Publisher: | Stanford University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $95.00 |
Book Description:
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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.
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.