{"product_id":"the-question-of-painting-by-jorella-andrews-9781472574275","title":"The Question of Painting","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince the latter half of the 20th century, committed art has been associated with conceptual, critical, and activist practices. Painting, by contrast, is 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000811765996,"sku":"9781472574275","price":65.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7880273482712.jpg?v=1763306680","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-question-of-painting-by-jorella-andrews-9781472574275","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}