This is what is at stake in modern painting
Does "this is what is at stake in modern painting" mean "this is what is done in modern painting"?
Conext:
Lyotard takes this notion of the unpresentability of nature and applies it to abstract art:
To make visible that there is something which can be conceived and which can neither be seen nor made visible; this is what is at stake in modern painting. But how to make visible that there is something which cannot be seen? Here, Kant himself shows the way when he names ‘formlessness, the absence of form’, as a possible index to the
unpresentable.
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catttt Does "this is what is at stake in modern painting" mean "this is what is done in modern painting"? Not really: "at stake" has more sense of jeopardy. To me the text seems to be saying that modern painting depends on the idea that "there is something which can be conceived ...
- catttt Does "this is what is at stake in modern painting" mean "this is what is done in modern painting"?
- Not really: "at stake" has more sense of jeopardy.
- To me the text seems to be saying that modern painting depends on the idea that "there is something which can be conceived ...
- ", so if this is not achieved then modern painting does not have any basis.
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cattttDoes "this is what is at stake in modern painting" mean "this is what is done in modern painting"?
Not really: "at stake" has more sense of jeopardy. To me the text seems to be saying that modern painting depends on the idea that "there is something which can be conceived ... etc.", so if this is not achieved then modern painting does not have any bas
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