Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0192856286
ISBN13:9780192856289
Release Date:November 2022
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Length:256 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.4" x 8.9"
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