The Thing and art: two essays on the ontotopy of the work of art

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Knyga / Book
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
The Thing and art: two essays on the ontotopy of the work of art
Publication Data:
Amsterdam ; Rodopi, 2009.
Pages:
xi, 153 p
Series:
On the boundary of two worlds : identity, freedom, and moral imagination in the Baltics; 16
Contents:
Introduction by Leonidas Donskis — I. The Thing and Relation in R. M. Rilke's Poetry — II. P. Cezanne and the End of Classical Western Painting — Notes — List of Works Cited.
Summary / Abstract:

ENArvydas Šliogeris's book, The Thing and Art, is a masterpiece of Lithuanian philosophy. It is a piece of rare lucidity, beauty, elegance, theoretical breadth, and philosophical depth. Focused on poetry and painting, it offers a thought- stimulating, penetrating, and provocative interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Cezanne. This book, beautifully written, rich in scope and ideas, and eye-opening in profound insights and subtle points concerning the ontology or, in Šliogeris's parlance, the ontotopy of the work of art, now reaches out to a wider readership and offers here an interpretive framework for the greatest works of classical and modem art. [...].

ISBN:
9789042025646
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