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The Crossing of the Visible (Cultural Memory in the Present)
The Crossing of the Visible - Cultural Memory in the Present Author:Jean-Luc Marion 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 visibilityof appearance. As such, the painting is a privileged case of the phenomenon; the painting becomes an index for investigating the conditions of appearance&... more »#151;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 paintingfrom classical to contemporaryas 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.« less