The Truth in Painting
Z. Derida
2001. cyrillic, paper back, p. 390, 21 cm
What we have in front of us is a leading French philosopher work, constructed in four chapters intended to explain and illuminate the sense of establishing the truth of the picture, the truth of the art of painting. In this context author arises a basic questions like: What is the art? What is the beauty? What is the performance? What is the real source of the art-work?
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Derrida begins to define deconstruction. From the documentary "Derrida."
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Derrida makes the distinction between the 'who' one loves - their singularity - and the 'what' - the specific qualities of the beloved; then, he states that philosophy's most basic question - 'What is Being?' promotes the same sort of differential reflection: "is Being someone or something?" Fidelity, he states, is always threatened by this division - between the desire to be faithful to the other's singularity and the qualities that may not be as one once thought ...
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