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.