Thoughtful Images Illustrating Philosophy Through Art

Thoughtful Images Illustrating Philosophy Through Art
- ISBN 13:
9780197650547
- ISBN 10:
0197650546
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 01/31/2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
The book argues that great works of art such as Titian's Rape of Europa are actually illustrations of literary texts-Ovid's Metamorphoses in Titian's case. This undermines the attempt to diminish the artistic achievement of illustrations by seeing them as an inferior art form to painting. That the abstract claims and theories put forward by philosophers are amenable to illustration is supported by the examples discussed in the balance of the book. These examples include illuminated Medieval manuscripts featuring illustrations of Aristotle's ethical theories; the frontispieces of philosophical works in the 17th and 18th century; Friedrich Nietzsche's, Martin Heidegger's, and Michel Foucault's use of paintings to illustrate their theories; the modernist tradition in which art is seen as a form of philosophy; conceptual artists' creation of works that explicitly include ideas taken from Ludwig Wittgenstein's writings; and works of what the author calls “graphic philosophy”-comic books
that include visual representations of philosophical ideas.