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Author Chrétien, Jean-Louis, 1952- author.

Title Hand to hand : listening to the work of art / Jean-Louis Chretien ; translated with an introduction by Stephen E. Lewis
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 184 pages)
Series Perspectives in continental philosophy, 1089-3938 ; no. 32
Perspectives in continental philosophy ; no. 32. 1089-3938
Contents How to wrestle with the irresistible -- Silence in painting -- A polyptych of slumbers -- The strange beauty of Charon -- The cat as instrument of nudity -- From God the artist to man the creator -- Like a liquid bond -- Elementary tears
Summary "Jean-Louis Chretien looks to poetry and painting to explore a theme that runs through all of his work: how human life is shaped by the experience of call and response. For Chretien, we live by responding to the call of experience with words, gestures, and expressions, even silence; in the process, we can become painfully aware of limits and failings." "In luminous meditations on works by Rembrandt, Delacroix, Manet, Verlaine, Keats, and other artists, Chretien, shows how art created by the "talking hands of painters" and the "secretly lucid" voices of poets helps us confront the finitude of the human body."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) and index
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Translated from the French
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Subject Christianity and the arts.
Christianity -- Philosophy.
Arts -- Philosophy.
RELIGION -- Christianity -- Literature & the Arts.
Arts -- Philosophy
Christianity and the arts
Christianity -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2003011118
ISBN 1417534125
9781417534128
Other Titles Corps à corps. English