{"product_id":"9781503602717","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 \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","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47167577784560,"sku":"9781503602717","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781503602717_p0.jpg?v=1763710513","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781503602717","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}