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Painting and Presence - Why Paintings Matter (Hardcover)
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Painting and Presence - Why Paintings Matter (Hardcover)
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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
starts from the challenge expressed in Plato's critique of the arts
generally, according to which they do not lead us to what is true
and good, and may take us away from them. Rudd tries to show that
this Platonic Challenge can be answered in its own terms: that
painting is good because it does lead us to truth. What paintings
can give us is a non-discursive "knowledge by acquaintance" in
which the essence of the painting's subject-matter is made present
to the viewer. Rudd traces this understanding of painting as
ontologically revelatory from the theology of the Byzantine Icon to
classical Chinese appreciations of landscape painting, to the work
of Merleau-Ponty and other Phenomenologists inspired by European
Modernist art. He argues that this account of painting as
disclosing the essences of things can also take up what is right
about expressive and formalist theories of painting; and that it
can apply as much to abstract as to representational painting. But
to disclose the reality of things can only be of value if the
reality disclosed is itself of value; and in the concluding part of
the book, Rudd argues that the value of painting can only be
properly understood in the context of a wider metaphysics or
theology in which value is understood, not as a human projection,
but as a basic characteristic of reality as such.
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