A Post-Metaphysical Turn:

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" A Post-Metaphysical Turn: "
Adi Louria-Hayon

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1081604
Doc. No	:	LA125233
Call No	:	‭10.1163/15685292-12341253‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Adi Louria-Hayon
Title & Author	:	A Post-Metaphysical Turn: [Article] : Contingency and Givenness in the Early Work of Dan Flavin (1959–1964)\ Adi Louria-Hayon
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Religion and the Arts
Date	:	2013
Volume/ Issue Number	:	17/1-2
Page No	:	20–56
Abstract	:	Dan Flavin’s fluorescent light installations have long served art historians by marking the turn from the late modernist illusionist space of painting to the new immanence of specific objects. In the narration of this genealogy, the crux of minimalism, as Hal Foster calls it, rests on a nominal approach that proclaims metaphysical relations as an obstacle and calls out to evade any notion of meaning. By contrast, this essay asserts the primacy of metaphysics in Flavin’s [en]lighted work. By tracing the artist’s scholastic education, his contemporary theo-political stance, and his rejection of objecthood, I argue that Flavin was continuously preoccupied with Catholic theology and that his work is imbued with Christian iconography. Thinking alongside the fourteenth-century philosopher William of Ockham and the twentieth-century post-Husserlian phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion, the evolution of Flavin’s light constructions proves relevant to the quandary of metaphysics and the role of theology in radical immanence. To bracket his metaphysics is to ignore the full implications of his art.
Descriptor	:	Art History
Descriptor	:	atheism
Descriptor	:	Comparative Religion Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Dan Flavin
Descriptor	:	General
Descriptor	:	History
Descriptor	:	Jean-Luc Marion
Descriptor	:	light installations
Descriptor	:	minimalism
Descriptor	:	nominalism
Descriptor	:	post-phenomenology
Descriptor	:	Religious Studies
Descriptor	:	Thomas Aquinas
Descriptor	:	William of Ockham
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/15685292-12341253‬