How pictures complete us : the beautiful, the sublime, and the divine /

Crowther, Paul,

How pictures complete us : the beautiful, the sublime, and the divine / Paul Crowther. - Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, (c)2016. - 1 online resource.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : pictorial beauty and aesthetic transcendence -- Ideal beauty and classic art : a philosophical vindication -- Pictorial art and metaphysical beauty -- Transcendent subjectivity : Kant and the pictorial sublime -- Colour-field abstraction and the mystical sublime -- Holistic beauty at the limits of art -- photocollage, painting, and digital imagery -- Perspective and icon : Marion's theology of painting -- Metaphysics and theology of pictorial art.



9780804798587


Art, Modern--Philosophy.
Pictures--Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Art and religion.


Electronic Books.

N6350 / .H697 2016