Painting and presence why paintings matter /

This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. I start from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts generally according to which they do not lead us to what is true and good, and may take us away from them. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudd, Anthony, 1963- (Author)
Corporate Author: Oxford Scholarship Online
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Series:Oxford Academic.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations (colour).
Also available in Print and PDF edition.
Subjects:
Painting.
Painting, Modern.
Painting -- Philosophy.
Sculpture.
Painting -- Technique.
Post-impressionism (Art)
Electronic books.
Online Access:Oxford Scholarship online - Click here for access
Contents:
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Part One-- 1. Do Paintings Matter? The Platonic Challenge
  • 2. Truth (and Goodness) in Painting
  • Part Two-- 3. Painting and Presence
  • 4. Painting as Revelation: The Icon as Paradigm
  • 5. Making the Invisible Visible: Merleau-Ponty
  • 6. Expression and Form
  • Part Three-- 7. Metaphysical Implications: Essences, Concepts, Value
  • 8. Natural Beauty
  • 9. The Re-Enchantment of the World
  • 10. Painting, Beauty, and the Sacred
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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