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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. The author traces an understanding of painting as ontologically revelatory from the theology of the Byzantine Icon to classical Chinese appreciations of landscape painting, and Pheno...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rudd, Anthony, 1963- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Painting > Philosophy.
Painting > Appreciation.
Peinture > Philosophie.
Peinture > Appréciation.
Criticism & Theory.
ART.
History.
PHILOSOPHY.
Philosophy.
RELIGION.
Painting > Appreciation
Painting > Philosophy
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:This book is concerned with why (or whether) paintings have value: why they might be worth creating and attending to. The author traces an understanding of painting as ontologically revelatory from the theology of the Byzantine Icon to classical Chinese appreciations of landscape painting, and Phenomenologists inspired by European Modernist art.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 244 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780192669124
0192669125