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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.
List 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
About the author
Dr Anthony Rudd studied Philosophy as an undergraduate at Cambridge and took his PhD at the University of Bristol (1998). He was a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Hertfordshire, 1999-2001, and since 2001 has taught in the United States at St. Olaf College, Minnesota. He is the author of Kierkegaard and the Limits of the Ethical (1993); Expressing the World: Skepticism, Wittgenstein and Heidegger (2003); and Self, Value and Narrative: a Kierkegaardian Approach (2012).
Summary
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.
