On representation / Louis Marin ; translated by Catherine Porter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marin, Louis, 1931-

Series:

Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)

Meridian

Standardized Title:

De la reprʹesentation. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Art.

Physical Description:

x, 449 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2001.

Summary:

This is a collection of twenty-two essays by an eminent philosopher, critic, and theorist that appeared between 1971 and 1992. The book interrogates the theory and practice of representation as it is carried out by both linguistic and graphic signs, and thus the complex relation between language and image, between perception and conception.

Contents:

Part I. Semiology and Social Science

1 The Dissolution of Man in the Human Sciences: The Linguistic Model and the Signifying Subject 3

2 Theoretical Field and Symbolic Practice 14

3 Establishing a Signification for Social Space: Demonstration, Cortege, Parade, Procession 38

4 The Concept of Figurability, or the Encounter Between Art History and Psychoanalysis 54

5 Mimesis and Description: From Curiosity to Method, from the Age of Montaigne to the Age of Descartes 64

Part II. Narratives

6 Utopian Discourse and Narrative of Origins from More's Utopia to Cassiodorus-Jordanes's Scandza 87

7 From Body to Text: Metaphysical Propositions on the Origin of Narrative 115

8 Critical Remarks on Enunciation: The Question of the Present in Discourse 130

9 On the Religious 143

10 The Pleasures of Narration 153

Part III. Visibility

11 The Ends of Interpretation, or the Itineraries of a Gaze in the Sublimity of a Storm 173

12 The City in Its Map and Portrait 202

13 History Made Visible and Readable: On Drawings of Trajan's Column 219

14 In Praise of Appearance 236

15 Mimesis and Description 252

16 The Tomb of the Subject in Painting 269

17 Depositing Time in Painted Representations 285

Part IV. The Limits of Painting

18 Representation and Simulacrum 309

19 Figures of Reception in Modern Representation in Painting 320

20 On the Margins of Painting: Seeing Voices 337

21 The Frame of Representation and Some of Its Figures 352

22 Ruptures, Interruptions, Syncopes in Representation in Painting 373.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 431-449) and index.

ISBN:

0804741506

0804741514

OCLC:

46872299