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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today? The question of painting, in particular, fuelled the investigations of a major 20th-century philosopher: the French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907-61). Merleau-Ponty was at the forefront of attempts to place philosophy on a new footing by contravening the authority of Cartesian dualism and objectivist thought-an authority that continues to limit present-day intellectual, imaginative, and ethical possibilities. A central aim of The Question of Painting is to provide a closely focused, chronological account of his unfolding project and its relationship with art, clarifying how painting, as a paradigmatically embodied and situated mode of investigation, helped him to access the fundamentally "intercorporeal" basis of reality as he saw it, and articulate its lived implications. With an exclusive and extended conversation about the contemporary virtues of painting with New York based artist Leah Durner, for whom the work of Merleau-Ponty is an important source of inspiration, The Question of Painting brings today's much debated concerns about the criticality of painting into contact with the question of painting in philosophy. |
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AcknowledgementsList of Images INTRODUCTION: Painting as ThoughtQuestionsRethinking thoughtMerleau-Ponty's trans-dimensional investigations An incarnational logic'Digging in the same place' -- Merleau-Ponty's broad project PART ONE: Painting -- Re-thinking Thought beyond Dualism and Positivism 1 'Nature' and 'Consciousness'- Merleau-Ponty's Critical Encounter with Dualism Broken? The problems of rationalism and empiricism The naïve consciousness and its reconstructive powers The significance of Gestalt Describing behaviour - its limitations and scope2 The Symbolic Forms and the Question of Integrated Being Obstacles The three forms of behaviour Beyond inherited structuresPART TWO: Painting -- Re-Thinking Thought as Perceptual and Embodied 3 Description and the Re-education of Sight How to start again Embodied perception -- our only access to the real? Description: the first philosophical act Into the base of 'inhuman' nature 4 Embodied Thought How do bodies think? Peculiar permanence The body in its intentional beingIntersubjectivity, intercorporeality and otherness -- foundational hospitalityPART THREE: Painting -- Re-Thinking Thought as 'Silence' and 'Speech' 5 The Being of Language, Reconceived A new index of curvatureMerleau-Ponty and the priority of expression SyntaxLanguage, truth and 'universality' 6 Visual Language and the 'Unity' of Painting Modern painting and the paradoxes of communicationCultures of display and debate -- renegotiating particularity-generalityPART FOUR: Painting -- Re-Thinking Thought as 'Secret Science' 7 Visibility, the 'Flesh' of the World The 'common stuff ... is the visible'The visible and the invisibleIndirect ontology and anonymous visibilityChiasm, illusion, dis-illusionImmersive thought and 'having at a distance' 8 Visual Treatises and the Search for Depth Painterly thought as secret scienceIntermundane spaceDepth of being and bodyThe painter's effort and the fragility of the real Visual treatisesBibliographyIndex. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Painting.
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Painting. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Philosophy: aesthetics. |
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Phenomenology & Existentialism. |
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ART / Techniques / Painting. |
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: ANDREWS, JORELLA. QUESTION OF PAINTING. [Place of publication not identified] : BLOOMSBURY, 2017 1472574281 (OCoLC)959038794 |
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9781472574305 (electronic book) |
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1472574303 (electronic book) |
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1472574281 |
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9781472574282 |
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