Philosophy Colloquium Presenting Talk on ‘Invisibility of Painting’
Contact: George Manlove: 207-581-3756
ORONO — The UMaine Philosophy Colloquium Series invites the pubic to a lecture today at 4:30 p.m. in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. The speaker is John Sallis, the Frederick J. Adelman Professor of Philosophy at Boston College.
Sallis will present and discuss his paper, “The Invisibility of Painting.” An authority on continental philosophy, Sallis has authored 16 books, including “Shades: Of Painting at the Limit,” “Topographies,” “On Translation,” “Force of Imagination: The Sense of the Elemental,” and the newly published “The Verge of Philosophy.”
The lecture will explore various ways in which a certain relation to invisibility belongs to the very nature of painting. Such a relationship is suggested by the gaps that occur in the painter’s vision and by the creative anticipation of the scene to be painted, according to the speaker.
The event is sponsored by the University of Maine’s chapter of Phi Sigma Tau, an honor society dedicated to the study of philosophy.