In this book, Gino Zaccaria offers a philosophical meditation on the issue of art in light of its originary sense. He shows how this sense can be fully understood provided that our thinking, on the one hand, returns to the ancient Greek world where it must heed the voice and hints of the goddess Athena, and, on the other hand, listens to “artist-thinkers” close to our current epoch, such as Cézanne, van Gogh and Boccioni. Indeed, the path of this meditation has as its guide the well-known sentence by the painter from Aix-en-Provence, which reads: “Je vous dois la vérité en peinture, et je vous la dirai !”. What will finally appear in this way will not be an abstract or historical notion of art, but its enigma; that is to say, the promise of “another initiation” of art itself.

Table of Contents:
Preface Acknowledgements Introduction Lexicon of a Thought-Path towards the Provenance of Art  0.1 Preamble  0.2 Path-Word Elucidations  0.3 List of Other Path-Words  0.4 Path-Word Maps part 1: Potency’s Art, Salubrity’s Art 1 The Dynamism of Boccioni   The Futurist Foundation of Artwork: Immersion into Potency and Energy  1.1 A Brief Premise  1.2 Universal Dynamism  1.3 The Morpho-Radio-Chromatic Model (Potency-Power, Energy, Space-Time)  1.4 Unacceptability (towards Cézanne and van Gogh) 2 The Light of Cézanne   Errantry into the Sun  2.1 Ardour  2.2 First Step: Solar Awfulness, Light and Flagrance  2.3 Second Step: Colour  2.4 Third Step: The Painting of Verity  2.5 Naturalness of the “Grand Magicien” 3 The Frugality of van Gogh   Errantry into the Mistral, into Salubriousness  3.1 “Le ton local”  3.2 Truth and Absconsion  3.3 Nature, Truth and Art  3.4 Wind  3.5 Salubrity and Frugality part 2: Athena and the Enigma 1: Sciency for Art 4 Elucidations of Some Further Path-Words  4.1 Irrefragableness  4.2 Excandescence  4.3 Businessisation  4.4 The Apperceptive Acception of Truth  4.5 Truth, Verity  4.6 The Scope of Being, Truth and Verity 5 The En-Wording of Art  5.1 The Play  5.2 The Realm of Errantry 6 Science and Sciency, Art and Errantry  6.1 From Science to Sciency  6.2 Sciency for Art  6.3 Mother-Speech  6.4 Art and History, Geniture and Inition 2: Athena 7 Loci of the Goddess  7.1 The Art of Athena  7.2 The Reigning Goddess  7.3 The Hymn 8 Eye, Prefulgence, Γλαυκότης  8.1 The Γλαυκῶπις and Παλλάς Tones  8.2 The “Glaucous” Eye-Cast, the “Glaucous” Myrance  8.3 “Glaucousness” and Prefulgence  8.4 The Multiform Γλαυκότης  8.5 The Eye’s Gift 9 The Salubrious-Divine Myrance  9.1 The Marvel of the Scope of Being  9.2 Excursus. The Γλαυκότης of Leopardi (a Vage Digression into Immensity)  9.3 The Γλαυκότης of the Goddess 10 Prefulgence, Κόσμος and Salubrity  10.1 Grace and Want (Thinking towards the Κόσμος of Heraclitus)  10.2 The Three Eyes of the Scope of Being 11 Μῆτις  11.1 The Salubrious Concent  11.2 Elucidation of Μῆτις  11.3 Athenaic (Ubiquity-)Nullibiety 12 The Heart of Salubriousness  12.1 Athena’s Heart  12.2 Towards the Beënt, towards the Things  12.3 The Bidance of Salubrity and the Greek Deity 13 Athenaicness and Salubriousness  13.1 Towards the Art of Chastity  13.2 The Atlas Metope 14 Salubriousness and Art  14.1 Originariness of the Calls  14.2 The Wild Olive  14.3 Vesper  14.4 Which Path? 3: The Enigma 15 Art and Errantry, Vagancy and Vagisness  15.1 The “Secret of Art”  15.2 The Stele of Schism  15.3 Chastity: Errantry  15.4 The Ultimate Horizon 16 The Enigma of Art  16.1 Dis-may  16.2 “The Long History” and Geniture 17 Nay-Say (Un-Wordedness)  17.1 Destiny  17.2 Γλαυκότης, Light, Φύσις  17.3 Φύσις and Salubriousness 18 The Onset of the Nay-Say  18.1 Spontaneity, Φύσις, Tέχνη  18.2 The Uniqueness of Athena  18.3 Ἀλήθεια part 3: The Two Arts (a Hint) 19 Φύσις and Τέχνη   Nature and Art  19.1 Φύσις as Assurgency  19.2 Art and Art  19.3 Groundlessness Bibliography  Cited and Reference Works  Consulted Dictionaries  Classical Sources  Online Resources Index of Classical Authors Index of Modern Authors