LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Ontologija; R.M.Rilke; Poezija; P. Sezanne; Tapyba; Daiktas; Menas; Grožis; Ontology; R. M. Rilke; Poetry; P. Cezanne; Painting; Object; Art; Beauty.
ENArvydas Šliogeris's book, The Thing and Art, is a masterpiece of Lithuanian philosophy. It is a piece of rare lucidity, beauty, elegance, theoretical breadth, and philosophical depth. Focused on poetry and painting, it offers a thought- stimulating, penetrating, and provocative interpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke and Paul Cezanne. This book, beautifully written, rich in scope and ideas, and eye-opening in profound insights and subtle points concerning the ontology or, in Šliogeris's parlance, the ontotopy of the work of art, now reaches out to a wider readership and offers here an interpretive framework for the greatest works of classical and modem art. [...]. [Extract, p. vii]