{"product_id":"the-question-of-painting-jorella-andrews-9781472574275","title":"The Question of Painting: Rethinking Thought with Merleau-Ponty","description":"Since the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is all too often defined as an outmoded, reactionary, market-led venture; an ineffectual medium from the perspective of social and political engagement. How can paintings change the world today?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe question of painting, in particular, fuelled the investigations of a major 20th-century philosopher: the French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1907-61). Merleau-Ponty was at the forefront of attempts to place philosophy on a new footing by contravening the authority of Cartesian dualism and objectivist thought-an authority that continues to limit present-day intellectual, imaginative, and ethical possibilities. A central aim of \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e is to provide a closely focused, chronological account of his unfolding project and its relationship with art, clarifying how painting, as a paradigmatically embodied and situated mode of investigation, helped him to access the fundamentally \"intercorporeal\" basis of reality as he saw it, and articulate its lived implications. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith an exclusive and extended conversation about the contemporary virtues of painting with New York based artist Leah Durner, for whom the work of Merleau-Ponty is an important source of inspiration, \u003ci\u003eThe Question of Painting\u003c\/i\u003e brings today's much debated concerns about the criticality of painting into contact with the question of painting in philosophy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jorella Andrews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1472574273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781472574275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.75d","brand":"Jorella Andrews","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985679155455,"sku":"9781472574275","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_533d5be6-1ba6-494f-ac7a-8c170a316419.jpg?v=1683278928","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-question-of-painting-jorella-andrews-9781472574275","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}