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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
Table of Contents:
  • Do Paintings Matter?: The Platonic Challenge
  • Truth (and Goodness) in Painting
  • Painting and Presence
  • Painting as Revelation: The Icon as Paradigm
  • Making the Invisible Visible: Merleau-Ponty
  • Expression and Form
  • Metaphysical Implications: Essences, Concepts, Value
  • Natural Beauty
  • The Re-Enchantment of the World
  • Painting, Beauty, and the Sacred.