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The Madness of Vision : On Baroque Aesthetics.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Series in Continental Thought SeriesPublisher: Athens, OH : Ohio University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (216 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780821444375
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Madness of VisionDDC classification:
  • 709.03201
LOC classification:
  • BH172.B8313 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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