The Madness of Vision : On Baroque Aesthetics.
Buci-Glucksmann, Christine.
The Madness of Vision : On Baroque Aesthetics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (216 pages) - Series in Continental Thought Series ; v.36 . - Series in Continental Thought Series .
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Translator's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Prelude: A "Je ne Sais Quoi …" -- 1. The Stage of Vision -- 2. The Work of the Gaze -- 3. Seeingness -- or, The Eye of the Phantasm -- 4. The Rhetorical Telescope I: Il Mirabile -- il Furore -- 5. The Rhetorical Telescope II: Figures of Nothingness -- 6. Palimpsests of the Ungazeable -- Finale: The Burning of Vision -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.
9780821444375
Aesthetics, Modern-17th century.
Electronic books.
BH172.B8313 2013
709.03201
The Madness of Vision : On Baroque Aesthetics. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (216 pages) - Series in Continental Thought Series ; v.36 . - Series in Continental Thought Series .
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Translator's Preface -- Author's Preface -- Prelude: A "Je ne Sais Quoi …" -- 1. The Stage of Vision -- 2. The Work of the Gaze -- 3. Seeingness -- or, The Eye of the Phantasm -- 4. The Rhetorical Telescope I: Il Mirabile -- il Furore -- 5. The Rhetorical Telescope II: Figures of Nothingness -- 6. Palimpsests of the Ungazeable -- Finale: The Burning of Vision -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
In The Madness of Vision, Buci-Glucksmann asserts the important of embodied vision in nine studies of paintings, sculptures, and images. She integrates the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics to make the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque.
9780821444375
Aesthetics, Modern-17th century.
Electronic books.
BH172.B8313 2013
709.03201