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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.

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Preface and Acknowledgements 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

Painting and Presence Why Paintings Matter

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 18/08/2022
      ISBN13: 9780192856289, 978-0192856289
      ISBN10: 0192856286
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      Art & Photography History of art Theory of art

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents
      Preface and Acknowledgements 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

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