{"product_id":"the-crossing-of-the-visible","title":"The Crossing of the Visible","description":"\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\n\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\n","brand":"Jean-Luc Marion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614227161468,"sku":"9780804733922","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780804733922_fa6b3f64-285c-4196-9839-c3792facb8cb.jpg?v=1727346175","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/the-crossing-of-the-visible","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}