Painting and Presence: Why Paintings Matter

by Anthony Rudd

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, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 8.9"